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Corned Beef, Boiled

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and turnip match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,002 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Corned Beef, Boiled

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wipe the corned beef and bind it with a strip of muslin to keep its shape.

  2. If the meat has been in pickle for a long time, start cooking it in cold water to draw out some salt.

  3. For better results, cover the meat with boiling water and simmer gently for 30 minutes per pound until tender, removing scum as it rises.

  4. If serving cold, let the meat cool in its liquid, then transfer to a platter, cover, and place a weight on top to firm it for slicing.

  5. For a hot boiled dinner, prepare vegetables like potatoes, carrots, cabbage, turnips, and onions, and add them to the pot with the meat.

  6. Cook beets separately and serve them hot with butter, salt, and pepper, or cold sliced in vinegar.

  7. Cook squash or pumpkin in a separate saucepan, mash it, and prepare with butter, salt, and pepper.

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. Carrot + turniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,002 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Cabbage + turniptop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together897 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

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

  4. Potato + carrottop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,107 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  5. Turnip + oniontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,585 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the pumpkin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, potato, carrot, cabbage, turnip, onion, butter):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Pumpkinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, potato, carrot, cabbage, turnip, onion, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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