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Veal Loaf in Cans

A canned meat loaf made from veal, beef, pork, tripe, hominy, and corn flour, seasoned with spices and oil.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Sage and marjoram match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 507 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Veal Loaf in Cans

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 240°F (115°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the meat

  1. Grind the veal, beef trimmings, pork trimmings, tripe, hominy, and corn flour through a medium-sized grinder.

  2. Mix in the spices thoroughly using a flyer for five minutes.

  3. Ensure the water used is ice cold for better mixing.

Can and process

  1. Stuff the mixture into sterilized one-pound cans, adding melted oleo oil to each can.

  2. Cap the cans immediately after filling.

  3. Process the cans in a vacuum machine for 1 hour and 15 minutes at 240°F (115°C).

  4. If no vacuum machine is available, process the cans in water at 205°F (96°C) for 30 minutes.

  5. Then process the cans at 240°F (115°C) for 1 hour and 15 minutes.

Chill and store

  1. After processing, chill the cans.

  2. Wash the cans.

  3. Store the cans in cartons.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Sage + marjoramtop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together507 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  2. Beef + porktop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,690 recipes

    Shared aroma: 12-methyltridecanal (tallowy, beefy).

  3. Pork + corntop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,069 recipes

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

  4. Corn + marjoramtop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together89 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  5. Veal + porktop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,930 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Veal
Provides the main lean meat body and firm, sliceable structure once cooked.
Beef trimmings
Adds meaty flavor and savory depth to the loaf.
Pork trimmings
Contributes fat that keeps the loaf moist and tender during processing.
Tripe
Adds a chewy, firm texture that gives the loaf body.
Corn flour
Starch absorbs moisture and helps bind the mixture into a cohesive loaf.
Hominy
Adds bulk and starchy body to the loaf.

The step that matters

Full processing time at temperature. Dense meat heats slowly, so the full processing time must run after the cans reach the set temperature. Cutting it short leaves the centre of the loaf underheated.

Flavor stand-ins for the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, beef, pork, corn, flour, sage, marjoram):

  1. Thymebetter flavor fit
  2. Oreganobetter flavor fit
  3. Rosemarybetter flavor fit
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, beef, pork, corn, flour, sage, marjoram. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

“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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