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Veal Salad and Dressing

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Why it works: Tomato and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 17,923 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Veal Salad and Dressing

Ingredients

Directions

  1. iV:'ss Matilda Denton.

  2. I teacup of strong vinegar; a piece of butter the size of a hickory-nut and i tablespoonful of sugar. Put on the fire, and when hot add the beaten yolks of 6 eggs. Stir all the time till it thickens. Take from the fire and add the oil (or cream), salt and pepper to taste. Put celery salt on the veal. Pick jup the veal, and add as much chopped cabbage as meat.

  3. Price to suit all— Virot's Products.

  4. FRRDONIA COOK BOOK. 57

  5. TOMATO JELLY— MAYONNAISE DRESSING. M?'s. G. S. Josselyn.

  6. Heat and strain through a coarse sieve i can of tomatoes, removing all seeds. Add to the juice a generous seasoning of salt and white pepper. Dissolve y^. box of Cox's gelatine. When the gelatine is dissolved, and the tomato juice hot, mix both thoroughly together. Pour into a plain mould and place on ice. When set, turn on a platter and serve by cutting thin slices, each placed on a lettuce leaf, and cover with mayonnaise dressing.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

208Calories
8 gProtein
17 gFat
7 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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

By Fredonia, N.Y. Trinity parish guild, comp. [from old catalog]. 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.

  1. Tomato + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

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

  2. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Pepper + white peppertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,478 recipes

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

  4. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Egg + white peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,312 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

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

Swap the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, egg, tomato, pepper):

  1. Parsleyfits better
  2. Tarragonfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, egg, tomato, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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