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Veal Stew

A stew of veal, potatoes, milk, and flour, seasoned with salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,611 recipes. Both carry (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, melon. The science ↓

Veal Stew

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the veal in enough water to cover for 1 hour.

  2. Add the potatoes and cook for an additional 30 minutes.

  3. Before removing from heat, stir in the milk and flour to thicken.

  4. Season to taste.

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. Potato + milktop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  2. Milk + flourtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Potato + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,355 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Veal + potatotop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together343 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Veal + milktop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,013 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

Milk and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 78,219 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Veal breast
Provides the meat and rich flavor that the stew is built around as it simmers.
Potatoes
Soften as they cook, adding body and starch that helps make the stew hearty.
Milk
Adds creaminess and mild sweetness to the liquid, softening the broth's savoriness.
Flour
Starch that swells in the hot liquid, thickening the stew into a loose gravy.

The step that matters

Stirring in the milk and flour before removing from heat. Flour thickens only when heated, so it needs to simmer briefly to cook out its raw taste and reach full thickening. Milk added at high heat can curdle or scorch, so keep the stew at a gentle simmer and stir constantly.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, milk, flour):

  1. Arrowrootfits better
  2. Leekfits about as well
  3. Potatothe original
  4. Shallotfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, milk, flour. 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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