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Beef Steak or Chops, Etc

A thick beef steak or chops served with a stuffed baked potato.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,052 recipes. Both carry sotolon, which smells curry, maple. The science ↓

Beef Steak or Chops, Etc

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the steak

  1. Cut a thick piece of beef steak into a nice shape.

  2. Broil the steak carefully.

  3. Serve the steak on a very hot plate.

  4. Sprinkle the steak with a little coarse sea salt.

  5. Do not use butter unless permitted by a physician.

Cook the chops

  1. Trim the chops neatly.

  2. Cook the chops in the same way as the steak.

  3. Broil the chop.

  4. Cut the chop into small bits.

Stuff the potato

  1. Prepare a baked potato by cutting a slice from the top and removing the inside.

  2. Season the potato flesh.

  3. Add the chopped meat to the potato flesh.

  4. Return the mixture to the potato skin.

  5. Serve the stuffed potato as hot as possible.

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 + potatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,052 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  2. Potato + eggtop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,978 recipes

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

  3. Beef + eggtop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Beef steak
Provides the main protein; broiling browns the surface and sets the meat's texture.
Baked potato
Provides starchy bulk; its flesh is scooped out, seasoned and refilled to hold the meat.
Egg
Optional binder that helps hold the potato and meat mixture together.

The step that matters

Serve the stuffed potato as hot as possible. Heat keeps the meat and potato at a palatable temperature, and fats in the filling stay soft rather than setting into a cold, greasy layer while the dish cools.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Asparagusfits about as well
  2. Chivefits about as well
  3. Potatothe original
  4. Leekfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, 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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