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Veal Pot-pie

A stew of veal and ham or salt pork topped with biscuit dough squares.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Veal and ham are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,264 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Veal Pot-pie

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the veal

  1. In a pot, gently stew the veal pieces with the ham or salt pork until nearly done.

Make the crust

  1. Prepare a richer baking powder biscuit dough and roll it out.

  2. Cut the dough into small squares.

Cook and serve

  1. Drop the squares into the boiling gravy and cover.

  2. Boil until the crust rises to the top and is cooked.

  3. Serve immediately to prevent the crust from becoming heavy.

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. Veal + hamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,264 recipes

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

  2. Ham + biscuittop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together64 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Veal + biscuittop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together113 recipes

    Shared aroma: maltol (caramel, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Veal
Provides the main meat, which becomes tender as it stews gently with the pork.
Ham or salt pork
Adds savory, salty fat that flavors the meat and gravy during stewing.
Baking powder biscuit dough
Forms the topping; baking powder releases gas that lifts the crust as it cooks.

The step that matters

Serve immediately. Biscuit dough softens and absorbs liquid the longer it sits in hot gravy. Its leavening gas expands while cooking, so a crust left waiting turns dense and heavy instead of light.

“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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