Skip to main content
Main

Beef Patties

Beef patties made from shredded underdone beef mixed with fat, pepper, salt, onion, wrapped in a butter, egg, milk dough, then fried.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Beef and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 17,092 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Beef Patties

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Shred the underdone beef and mix with a little fat, pepper, coarse sea salt, and onion.

Make the dough

  1. Make a plain dough with butter, egg, and milk.

  2. Roll the dough thin and cut into apple-puff shapes.

Fill and fry

  1. Fill each shape with the beef mixture, pinch the edges closed, and fry until golden brown.

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.

Explore the science

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 + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,092 recipes

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

  2. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

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

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

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

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

  5. Beef + milktop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,759 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

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

What each ingredient does

Underdone dressed beef
Forms the savory filling that gives the patties their main flavor and body.
Butter
Adds fat and richness to the dough, making it tender and flavorful.
Egg
Binds the dough and adds structure and color to the pastry.
Milk
Moistens the dough so it rolls smoothly and cooks to a soft texture.

The step that matters

Pinch the edges closed before frying. If the edges are not sealed tightly, the filling can leak out into the hot fat and the patty can open or burst while frying. A firm seal keeps the filling enclosed as the dough cooks and browns.

Swap the onion

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

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Asparagusfits about as well
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, pepper, butter, egg, milk. 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.

More beef patties recipes

Scraped 4 See all 32 →

You might also like

Roast BeefRoast Beef211 recipesBeef LoafBeef Loaf175 recipesCorned BeefCorned Beef87 recipesBeef BrothBeef Broth67 recipes