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Veal Eggs in a Nest a LA Turin

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,673 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Veal Eggs in a Nest a LA Turin

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Chop the blanched almonds or champignons finely.

  2. Bind the mixture with a beaten egg and stir over heat for one minute; set aside to cool.

  3. Flour your hands and form the mixture into egg-sized balls; let them cool.

  4. Roll the balls in egg and then in cracker dust.

  5. Fry the balls in deep fat until golden brown.

  6. Boil spaghetti in salted water until tender, then drain.

  7. Butter the spaghetti generously and pour the strained tomato sauce over it.

  8. Heap the fried balls in the center of the spaghetti and serve.

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. Almond + flourtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,673 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Almond + buttertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,245 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Sauce + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15,338 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Tomato + saucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,469 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (almond, egg, flour, sauce, butter):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Arrowrootfits better
  3. Chivefits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against almond, egg, flour, sauce, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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