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Veal Gravy Tomate

A veal stock-based gravy thickened with purée and tomato juice, strained and served with meat.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Veal and tomato work together. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 709 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Veal Gravy Tomate

Ingredients

Directions

Make the gravy

  1. Combine 1 pint veal stock, 2 ounces purée, and ¼ pint tomato juice in a saucepan.

  2. Bring to a boil and reduce the mixture by one-fifth.

  3. Strain the gravy through a fine linen cloth.

Serve

  1. Serve the gravy with meat.

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.

Explore the science

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 + tomatotop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together709 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 stock
Provides the main liquid and savoury meaty body of the gravy.
Purée
Adds concentrated tomato flavour and body to the gravy.
Tomato juice
Adds acidity and extra tomato flavour while keeping the gravy fluid.

The step that matters

Reducing the mixture by one-fifth. As water evaporates during boiling, the flavour concentrates and the gravy thickens. Reducing too little leaves it thin and mild, while reducing too far makes it overly intense and sticky.

“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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