Why it works: Veal and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 23% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,381 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓
Veal, Breast Of, Stuffed and Roasted
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Raise the thick part of the veal with your fingers and fill the cavity with as much veal stuffing as possible.
Bring the edges of the meat together and sew them with twine or fasten with skewers to prevent the stuffing from escaping.
Roast and serve
Place the veal at a moderate distance from a clear fire and baste it liberally.
Roast for 1 hour and 45 minutes.
Once done, pour melted butter over the veal and serve with fried bacon rashers.
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.
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Veal + buttertop 23% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together9,381 recipes
Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Veal breast
- Forms the main body of the dish, cooking slowly to tender, juicy meat.
- Veal stuffing
- Fills the cavity, adding moisture and flavour to the meat as it roasts.
- Melted butter
- Adds richness and a glossy finish when poured over the cooked veal.
- Fried bacon rashers
- Contribute salty, smoky fat that complements the mild veal.
The step that matters
Sewing or skewering the edges. If the edges are not closed tightly, the stuffing can escape during roasting, leaving the meat dry and unevenly cooked around an exposed cavity.
“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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