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Rolls, Veal

Veal rolls stuffed with bacon, parsley, mushrooms, spices, and bread crumbs, simmered in brown gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Rolls, Veal

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the rolls

  1. Spread minced bacon, chopped parsley, stewed mushrooms, pepper, coarse sea salt, pounded mace, and bread crumbs on each slice of veal.

  2. Fold the meat and tie it securely with twine.

Cook and serve

  1. Place the rolls in a saucepan and cover with brown gravy.

  2. Simmer gently until tender.

  3. Serve hot with gravy poured over the rolls.

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. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Mushroom + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,580 recipes

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

  4. Parsley + mushroomtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,132 recipes

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

  5. Veal + mushroomtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,446 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Veal slices
Provide the meat that is rolled around the filling and becomes tender during simmering.
Minced bacon
Adds fat and savory flavor that keeps the filling moist during gentle cooking.
Bread crumbs
Absorb juices and fat from the filling, helping it hold together inside the roll.
Stewed mushrooms
Contribute moisture and earthy flavor to the filling.
Brown gravy
Keeps the rolls moist as they simmer and forms the sauce served with them.

The step that matters

Simmer gently until tender. Gentle simmering breaks down the connective tissue in the meat slowly. A rapid boil toughens the proteins and can cause the rolls to fall apart.

Swap the mace

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

  1. Marjoramfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Sagefits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, parsley, mushroom, pepper, 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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