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Mince Meat Sandwiches

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Mustard and celery are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,169 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Mince Meat Sandwiches

Oven, in the book's wordsA brisk oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove skin, bone, and gristle from the cold meat and mince it finely.

  2. In a bowl, add suitable seasonings based on the type of meat you are using.

  3. Moisten the mince with stock if necessary and mix thoroughly.

  4. Spread the mixture on slices of thinly-cut, buttered bread and cover with more bread.

  5. Press gently together and cut into small, neat pieces.

  6. Arrange on a fancy dish and garnish with fresh parsley or watercress.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Mustard + celerytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,169 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Pepper + sagetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,388 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Pepper + celerytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Celery + sagetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together723 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Mustard + oniontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,259 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the sage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, pepper, mustard, celery, mushroom, mutton, onion):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Garlicfits better
  3. Turmericfits better
  4. Sagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, pepper, mustard, celery, mushroom, mutton, onion. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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