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Boiled Beef

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,173 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

Boiled Beef

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove the twine from the beef and place it on a serving dish.

  2. Cut carrots and turnips with a fruit corer and arrange them around the beef.

  3. For Brussels sprouts, surround the beef with sprouts and decorate with skewers.

  4. For fried potatoes, cut them into fillets and place them around the beef with gravy.

  5. For glazed onions, surround the beef with them.

  6. For celery, serve the beef with a puree of celery around it.

  7. For cauliflowers, garnish the beef with them.

  8. For chestnuts, glaze them and skewer them with fried potatoes and carrots, then place around the beef.

  9. For the sauce, heat butter in a saucepan, add the beef, and stir for 10 minutes.

  10. Add flour and enough warm water to half cover the meat, then boil for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.

  11. Mix egg yolks and lemon juice in a bowl, then combine with the sauce.

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 + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  2. Turnip + cauliflowertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together286 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Turnip + celerytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,418 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Turnip + oniontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,585 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the brussels sprouts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, carrot, turnip, fried potato, onion, celery, cauliflower):

  1. Leekfits better
  2. Broccolifits better
  3. Parsnipfits better
  4. Brussels sproutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, carrot, turnip, fried potato, onion, celery, cauliflower. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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