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Hash is a stew of cold meat, vegetables, and herbs simmered in water, then served with ketchup and pickled walnuts.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and turnip match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,002 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Hash

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the gravy

  1. Cut the meat off the bones.

  2. Place bones in a pot with water, onion, carrot, turnip, and herbs.

  3. Simmer for 1-2 hours.

Finish and serve

  1. Roll meat slices in flour.

  2. Strain the gravy over the meat.

  3. Bring to a boil.

  4. Add ketchup and chopped pickled walnuts.

  5. Serve hot.

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. Carrot + turniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,002 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Onion + turniptop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,585 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Onion + carrottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together21,601 recipes

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

  4. Turnip + flourtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,874 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Carrot + walnuttop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together506 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Cold meat
Provides the main body of the dish, cooked gently in the gravy until tender.
Flour
Coats the meat slices and helps thicken the gravy as it heats.
Pickled walnuts
Add a sharp, tangy flavour that cuts through the richness of the gravy.
Ketchup
Adds sweetness and acidity to season the gravy.

Swap the walnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, onion, carrot, turnip, flour, ketchup):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Chestnutfits better
  3. Lentilsfits better
  4. Walnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, onion, carrot, turnip, flour, ketchup. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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