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Why it works: Beef and pork match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,690 recipes. Both carry 12-methyltridecanal, which smells tallowy, beefy. The science ↓

Time for Meats

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cook beef for 9 to 10 minutes per pound for rare.

  2. Cook mutton leg for 10 to 12 minutes per pound.

  3. Cook plain veal loin for 15 to 18 minutes per pound.

  4. Cook stuffed veal for 20 minutes per pound.

  5. Cook spare ribs of pork for 15 to 20 minutes per pound.

  6. Cook pork loin or shoulder for 20 to 30 minutes per pound.

  7. Bake or braise liver for 1 to 1.5 hours.

  8. Cook corned beef for 25 to 30 minutes per pound.

  9. Simmer boiled beef for 20 to 30 minutes per pound.

  10. Cook ham for 15 to 20 minutes per pound after water begins to boil.

  11. Cook bacon for 15 minutes per pound.

  12. Bake chicken (3-4 pounds) for 1 to 2 hours.

  13. Roast a 10-pound turkey for 3 hours.

  14. Roast an 8-pound goose for 3 hours.

  15. Cook grouse, pigeons, and other large birds for 30 minutes.

  16. Cook small birds for 10 to 15 minutes.

  17. Cook venison for 15 minutes per pound.

  18. Cook long and thin fish (6-8 pounds) for 1 hour.

  19. Cook thick fish (6 pounds) for 1.5 to 2 hours.

  20. Cook small fish for 25 to 30 minutes.

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 + porktop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,690 recipes

    Shared aroma: 12-methyltridecanal (tallowy, beefy).

  2. Pork + chickentop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,417 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  3. Veal + livertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together392 recipes

    Shared aroma: enoic acid (butter, cheesy).

  4. Beef + chickentop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,148 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  5. Chicken + turkeytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together688 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).

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