Why it works: Veal and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 28% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,886 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓
Veal Pot-pie
Ingredients
Directions
Boil the veal for 1.5 hours.
Half an hour before serving, prepare a biscuit-like dough.
Drop spoonfuls of the dough into the kettle with the veal.
Thicken the gravy with flour.
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.
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Veal + flourtop 28% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together5,886 recipes
Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
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