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Veal Salad

A salad made with boiled veal, pork, celery, hard‑boiled eggs, and salad dressing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Veal and pork are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,930 recipes. Both carry 4-heptenal, which smells creamy, biscuit. The science ↓

Veal Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Boil and chop the veal and pork.

  2. Chop the celery and hard boiled eggs finely.

Assemble

  1. Combine all ingredients in a large bowl.

  2. Add the salad dressing and mix well.

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. Veal + porktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,930 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  2. Pork + celerytop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,572 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  3. Veal + celerytop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,336 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Veal + eggtop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,845 recipes

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

  5. Pork + eggtop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,387 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

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

What each ingredient does

Veal
Forms the bulk of the salad, providing the main meaty texture.
Lean pork
Adds more meat to the salad, contributing body and savory flavor.
Celery
Adds crisp texture and fresh, slightly sharp crunch to the salad.
Hard boiled eggs
Add richness and a soft, creamy texture that binds the salad.
Salad dressing
Supplies moisture and fat, coating the meat, celery and eggs and adding flavor.

Swap the celery

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

  1. Sagefits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, pork, 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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