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Veal Kidney Saute

A sauté of veal kidney with onion, butter, salt, paprika, served with lemon slices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 42,912 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Veal Kidney Saute

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Chop the onion finely and brown it in butter.

  2. Cut the kidney into thin slices.

  3. Season the kidney with salt and paprika.

Cook and serve

  1. Cook the kidney until tender.

  2. Serve with slices of lemon.

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. Onion + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42,912 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,227 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Veal + lemontop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,580 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  4. Onion + vealtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,841 recipes

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

  5. Onion + lemontop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,646 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Veal kidney
Is the main protein, becoming tender and savoury when cooked briefly over heat.
Onion
Browning in butter adds sweetness and a savoury base to the sauté.
Butter
Browns and carries flavour, giving the onion and kidney a rich, nutty taste.

The step that matters

Cook the kidney until tender. Veal kidney toughens quickly when overcooked, so it should be cooked just until done and removed from heat promptly. Thin slices cook fast, which makes timing easy to misjudge.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, butter, veal):

  1. Coconutfits about as well
  2. Lemonthe original
  3. Avocadofits about as well
  4. Grapefits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, butter, veal. 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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