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Stuffed Beefsteak

A beefsteak stuffed with a butter, salt, pepper, and bread mixture, baked in a pan with water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 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 ↓

Stuffed Beefsteak

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the stuffing

  1. Soak the pieces of bread in water until soft.

  2. Mix the softened bread with butter, salt, and pepper.

Stuff and season the steak

  1. Spread the mixture on one side of the steak and fold it over.

  2. Sew the edges of the steak closed with needle and thread.

  3. Season the outside of the steak with salt and pepper.

Bake

  1. Place the steak in a dripping pan with ½ inch of water.

  2. Bake in a 400°F (200°C) oven until browned on one side, then turn and bake the other side.

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. Beef + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,971 recipes

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

  3. Beef + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  4. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

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

  5. Beef + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,847 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Beef steak
Forms the outer wrap that encloses the stuffing and browns in the oven.
Pieces of bread
Soaked and softened, it forms a moist stuffing that absorbs juices from the meat.
Butter
Adds fat and richness to the stuffing and helps keep it moist during baking.

The step that matters

Sew the edges closed securely. If the seams open, the stuffing can leak out during baking. Tight, well-sewn edges keep the filling inside and the steak together as it cooks.

“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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