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To Bone Powis for Fricassees, Cubbies, & Pies

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Why it works: Veal and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,446 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

To Bone Powis for Fricassees, Cubbies, & Pies

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cover veal trimmings and bones with veal broth and add salt if needed.

  2. Stew gently for 1 hour and 15 minutes to 1 hour and 30 minutes.

  3. Let it cool in the broth, then remove the veal.

  4. Boil down the gravy until it becomes jelly, then strain it.

  5. Allow the jelly to cool, remove the fat, and serve cut into large dice around the cold fowl.

  6. Alternatively, stew the fowl gently for 1 hour and serve hot with sauce.

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 + mushroomtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,446 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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