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Roasting Meat

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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 ↓

Roasting Meat

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Roast beef for 15 minutes per pound plus an additional 15 minutes.

  2. Roast veal for 25 minutes per pound.

  3. Roast lamb for 20 minutes per pound.

  4. Roast mutton for 25 minutes per pound.

  5. Roast pork for 25 to 30 minutes.

  6. Broil steak for 8 to 10 minutes, depending on thickness.

  7. Roast turkey for 15 minutes per pound for a young one, longer for an old one.

  8. Roast chicken for 1 to 2 hours.

  9. Roast duck for 2 hours.

  10. Roast goose for 2.5 hours.

  11. Boil fish for 30 minutes for every 4 pounds.

  12. Steam fish for 45 minutes for the same size.

  13. Bake stuffed fish for 25 to 30 minutes in a moderate oven.

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

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

  4. Beef + lambtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together896 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  5. Lamb + chickentop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together626 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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

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