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Veal Olive

Veal should be cooked thoroughly to ensure safety.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Why it works: Veal and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 27% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,072 recipes. Both carry decanoic acid, which smells soapy, waxy. The science ↓

Veal Olive

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Stuff the veal slices with veal stuffing.

  2. Glaze the stuffed veal with a little soy sauce.

  3. Cook the veal as you would beef olives.

  4. Serve with fried bacon rolled up with the veal.

  5. Make a thick gravy from the drippings.

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 + saucetop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,072 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanoic acid (soapy, waxy).

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