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Veal Fricassee

A veal dish cooked by parboiling and then stewing until tender.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and veal are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,243 recipes. Both carry 3-butanedione, which smells buttery, creamy. The science ↓

Veal Fricassee

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Parboil the veal in water until tender, about 30 minutes or longer.

  2. Remove the veal from the water once tender.

  3. Stew the veal slowly until fully cooked.

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. Chicken + vealtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,243 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-butanedione (buttery, creamy).

  2. Veal + sagetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together670 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Sage + macetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together519 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  4. Veal + macetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,761 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  5. Chicken + sagetop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together894 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

What each ingredient does

Veal
Provides the meat; slow cooking breaks down connective tissue for a tender, moist texture.

The step that matters

Stewing slowly. Gentle, low heat lets the connective tissue in the veal soften into gelatin while the meat stays moist. Vigorous boiling tightens the muscle fibres and makes the meat tough and dry.

Swap the sage

The recipe marks sage as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, veal, mace):

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Marjoramfits better
  3. Gingerfits better
  4. Sagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, veal, mace. 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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