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Keknel 0? Veal with Mayonnaise Tomatoed Sauce

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Keknel 0? Veal with Mayonnaise Tomatoed Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Lard the kernel of veal with ham and fat pork.

  2. Cover it with slices of udder and braise.

  3. Place the kernel in a dome-shaped terrine or mold.

  4. Strain in the stock and add gelatine if the mixture is not consistent enough.

  5. When cold, turn it out onto a dish.

  6. Remold into a larger mold decorated with cuts of vegetables.

  7. Fill with jelly and let it cool.

  8. Dress on a carved rice base and garnish with blanched and cooked turnip and carrot balls.

  9. Dress a butter or vegetable border on the edge of the dish.

  10. Serve with mayonnaise mixed with tomato puree.

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. Carrot + tomatotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,606 recipes

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

  3. Pork + tomatotop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,843 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Ham + porktop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,638 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, ham, pork, carrot, turnip, butter):

  1. Leekfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Onionfits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, ham, pork, carrot, turnip, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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