Name: Anna Broz
Ingredients: two pounds of veal; one teaspoon salt; one cup of cream; one pound of lean pork ground; two beaten eggs; half green pepper chopped fine; four crackers rolled mix well; two small bread tins; one bay leaf on each loaf

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 ↓

Anna Broz

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

Combine veal, pork, eggs, salt, small onion grated, green pepper chopped, cream, and crackers; mix well.
Put the mixture into two small bread tins.

Bake

Lay slices of bacon on top and place one bay leaf on each loaf.
Bake for one hour in a hot oven.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

859Calories

48 gProtein

26 gFat

102 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Pork	100g cooked	242
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Bell Pepper	1 medium (119g)	31
Bay Leaf	1 leaf (0.6g)	2
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Veal	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Paidar, Marie, Mrs., [from old catalog] comp. 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. See the original page.

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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.

Veal + porktop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,930 recipes

Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).
Pork + breadtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,371 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).
Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together22,662 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
Cream + porktop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together3,093 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Pork + peppertop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together22,121 recipes

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