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Calves' Livee En Casseeole

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Why it works: Pepper and sage match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,388 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Calves' Livee En Casseeole

Ingredients

Directions

  1. 76 THE USEFUL COOK BOOK

  2. (Shopped or diced vegetables, surround with same, and add seasoning and cup of stock or hot water. Cover and cook in moderate oven about 1 hour. Vegetables, 1 cup of celery, i/i cup each turnips, carrots, onions and a little parsley. Potato balls may be added last half hour if desired.

  3. Mes. C. a. Maetin.

  4. BEEF LOAF. Use round steak ; for every pound, use 1/4 pound of salt pork. Put all this through the meat grinder, add i^ cup of bread crumbs, 1-3 cup oi water, 1 egg, l^ teaspoon of salt and a little pepper. Form in a loaf in a pan and lay thin strips of salt pork over the top. Bake in a quick oven, allowing about 30 minutes to a pound.

  5. Mks. H. Wade Hibbaed.

  6. BEEP LOAF. One ib. chopped lean beef; i/4 &• fat pork (fresh preferred); 1 beaten egg ; ^2 cup of fine crumbs. Season with salt and pepper, mix into loaf. Bake 1 hour. Mes. M. A. Geant.

  7. BEEF LOAF. Three lbs. beef run through a chopper ; 14 *• of salt pork ; 1 cup of cracker crumbs; 3 eggs, well beaten; % teaspoons of salt; 1 teaspoon of pepper ; sage to taste. Make in loaf, and bake 3% hours. Put a little water in pan and baste often. C. E. Mooee.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

400Calories
35 gProtein
21 gFat
15 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
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Cracker5 saltine crackers (15g)66
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Sage1 tsp ground (0.7g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0

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

By Ithaca (N.Y.) First Baptist Church. Ladies Union. 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.

Explore the science

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. Pepper + sagetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,388 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Celery + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Celery + sagetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together723 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Pork + sagetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,527 recipes

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

  5. Pork + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,121 recipes

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

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

Swap the celery

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

  1. Marjoramfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. Celerythe original

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

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