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Meat Balls, Minced, Fried

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 17,923 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Meat Balls, Minced, Fried

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the neck of veal in water with salt and vinegar until tender.

  2. Cut the roast mutton, chestnuts, and boiled veal into small pieces.

  3. Mix the chopped meats with finely cut seasoning herbs, salt, and pepper.

  4. Combine the mixture with the yolks of three eggs to form a mass.

  5. Roll the mixture into balls.

  6. Fry the balls in butter until cooked through.

  7. Serve with tomato sauce.

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. Pepper + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Chestnut + tomatotop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together144 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Chestnut + peppertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together826 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Vinegar + peppertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Mutton + vealtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,394 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-nonanal (fatty, waxy).

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

Swap the chestnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mutton, veal, vinegar, pepper, egg, butter, tomato):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Peasfits better
  3. Lima beansfits better
  4. Chestnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, veal, vinegar, pepper, egg, butter, tomato. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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