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Leg of Veal Stuffed with Mushrooms

A veal leg is stuffed with a mixture of mushrooms, ham, breadcrumbs, onion, and milk, then baked.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Leg of Veal Stuffed with Mushrooms

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Remove the bone from the leg of veal using a sharp knife.

Make and stuff

  1. In a skillet, melt the butter and fry the mushrooms, bread crumbs, ham, onion, and milk together to make the stuffing.

  2. Stuff the mixture into the leg of veal.

Bake

  1. Bake the stuffed leg of veal at 350°F (175°C), allowing 20 minutes per pound.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  4. Ham + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  5. Mushroom + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Veal leg
Forms the main body of the dish, providing the meat that is stuffed and baked.
Bread crumbs
Absorb the butter and milk to make a moist, soft stuffing that holds together.
Butter
Adds fat and richness to the stuffing and helps it brown in the skillet.
Ham
Adds savoury, salty flavour to the stuffing.
Button mushrooms
Add earthy flavour and moisture to the stuffing.

The step that matters

Stuff the mixture into the leg of veal. The stuffing should be cooled and loosely packed so it does not become soggy or leak out during baking. Packing it too tightly can keep the centre of the meat from cooking evenly.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, ham, butter, pepper, mushroom, milk, bread):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Tomatofits better
  3. Potatofits about as well
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, ham, butter, pepper, mushroom, milk, 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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