Name: Pickled Beef Heart
Ingredients: beef heart; spiced boiling vinegar; summer savory or parsley for garnish

Why it works: Beef and summer savory work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 152 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Pickled Beef Heart

Ingredients

beef heart
spiced boiling vinegar
summer savory or parsley for garnish

Directions

Boil the beef heart thoroughly in water.
Pour ¾ cup of spiced boiling vinegar over the heart.
Set aside to cool.
Slice thinly and serve on a dish garnished with summer savory or parsley.

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.

Beef + summer savorytop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together152 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
Vinegar + summer savorytop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together36 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Beef + vinegartop 28% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,895 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).