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Maryland Stuffed Beefsteak

A round steak stuffed with bread crumbs, onion, butter, and egg, baked until cooked.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Maryland Stuffed Beefsteak

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the steak

  1. Remove the bone from the steak and beat it well.

  2. Season the steak with salt and pepper.

  3. In a bowl, combine the moistened bread crumbs, onion, butter, and beaten egg.

  4. Spread the mixture evenly over the steak.

  5. Roll up the steak and fasten it with a skewer.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake in a preheated oven at 350°F (175°C) for 1.5 hours.

  2. Serve with tomato 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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + walnuttop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,039 recipes

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

  4. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. Onion + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42,912 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Round steak
Forms the outer wrap that holds the stuffing as the roll cooks.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and give the stuffing body so it holds together when sliced.
Egg
Binds the bread crumb mixture so the stuffing sets firmly during baking.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, keeping the stuffing moist as it bakes.
Onion
Adds aromatic flavor to the stuffing as it cooks.

The step that matters

Rolling and fastening the steak. If the roll is loose or the skewer is not secure, the stuffing can leak out during baking. A tight, evenly spread layer of stuffing keeps the roll compact and cooks it more evenly.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, bread, butter, walnut, egg):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, bread, butter, walnut, egg. 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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