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Stewed Rump of Beef

A stew made from rump of beef and onions, simmered until tender.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 17,092 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Stewed Rump of Beef

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the rump of beef into pieces.

  2. Brown the beef in a pot.

Stew and serve

  1. Add chopped onions and cover with water.

  2. Simmer until the beef is tender.

  3. Season to taste before serving.

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. Beef + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,092 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

What each ingredient does

Rump of beef
Its connective tissue breaks down during slow simmering, turning tough meat tender and moist.
Onions
They soften and sweeten as they cook, adding flavour to the stewing liquid.

The step that matters

Simmer until the beef is tender. Rump is a lean, tough cut with connective tissue that needs long, gentle heat to turn into gelatin. A hard boil toughens the surface fibres, so keep the liquid at a slow simmer and test for tenderness rather than relying on a set time.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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