Name: Veal Roast
Ingredients: veal; squash; stewed tomatoes; currant jelly

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 Roast

Ingredients

veal
squash
stewed tomatoes
currant jelly

Directions

Cook the veal thoroughly.
Serve with squash as a side.
Add stewed tomatoes as another side.
Offer currant jelly for a nice accompaniment.

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.

Veal + tomatotop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together709 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Tomato + curranttop 28% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together122 recipes

Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).
Veal + curranttop 35% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together180 recipes

Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).