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Veal Sandwiches

A sandwich made with finely chopped roast veal, apple, celery, walnuts, and salad dressing, served between thin bread slices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Celery and walnut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 852 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Veal Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. In a bowl, combine the chopped veal, apple, celery, and walnuts.

  2. Add salad dressing until the mixture forms a smooth paste.

Assemble and serve

  1. Spread the mixture between thin slices of bread.

  2. Cut into desired shapes and serve.

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. Celery + walnuttop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together852 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  2. Apple + celerytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,155 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  3. Apple + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,790 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Apple + walnuttop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,051 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Celery + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,110 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Roast veal
Provides the main savory protein and body of the filling.
Salad dressing
Binds the chopped ingredients into a spreadable paste and adds moisture and tang.
Apple
Adds moisture, mild sweetness and a crisp contrast to the rich meat.
Celery
Adds crunch and fresh, slightly savory flavor to the filling.
Walnuts
Add crunch and a nutty, slightly bitter note to the paste.

The step that matters

Add salad dressing until the mixture forms a smooth paste. Adding dressing gradually lets you judge how moist the filling is. Too little leaves the chopped pieces loose and hard to spread, while too much makes the bread soggy and the filling runny.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, celery, walnut, bread):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Cherryfits about as well
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, celery, walnut, bread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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