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Veal Stew

A layered stew of veal, potatoes, salt pork, and water, simmered until tender.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and pork are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,668 recipes. Both carry sotolon, which smells curry, maple. The science ↓

Veal Stew

Ingredients

Directions

Layer the stew

  1. Layer veal in the bottom of a pot and sprinkle with pepper and coarse sea salt.

  2. Add a layer of potato slices, then another layer of veal seasoned as before.

  3. Repeat layering until all veal is used.

  4. Top the last layer of veal with slices of salt pork.

  5. Finish with a layer of potato slices on top.

  6. Pour in enough water to cover the ingredients.

Cook

  1. Heat for 15 to 20 minutes.

  2. Simmer for 1 hour.

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. Potato + porktop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,668 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  2. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Pepper + porktop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,121 recipes

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

  5. Veal + peppertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,049 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

Veal
Provides the meat, which becomes tender and flavourful during long, gentle simmering.
Potatoes
Absorb the cooking liquid and thicken the stew as their starch softens.
Salt pork
Adds fat and savoury depth that flavours the broth and meat as it renders.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Potatothe original
  3. Tomatofits about as well
  4. Carrotfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, pepper, pork. 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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