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Veal Scallop

A layered veal dish baked with bread crumbs, butter, gravy, and milk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Veal Scallop

Oven, in the book's wordsA good oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the layers

  1. Chop the remains of your fillet of veal finely and season with pepper and coarse sea salt.

  2. Put a layer of dry bread crumbs in a buttered bake-dish and dot with bits of butter.

  3. Cover with the seasoned meat and moisten with gravy and warm milk.

  4. Repeat the layers until the dish is full, finishing with a thick layer of bread crumbs.

Bake and serve

  1. Cover with a tin lid and bake for 30 minutes.

  2. Remove the lid and brown the top nicely.

  3. Serve in the bake-dish.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Pepper + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Veal + breadtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,056 recipes

    Shared aroma: cis-3-hexenol (green, grassy).

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

What each ingredient does

Veal
Provides the main meat filling, which becomes tender as it bakes in moisture.
Dry bread crumbs
Form the layers that absorb the gravy and milk and crisp into a browned top.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the top and bread crumbs brown in the oven.
Gravy
Adds moisture and savoury flavour that soaks into the layers as they bake.
Warm milk
Adds moisture and softness, helping the bread crumbs soften and bind the layers.

The step that matters

Cover with a tin lid and bake for 30 minutes.. The covered lid traps steam so the meat cooks through and the layers stay moist; uncovering too early can dry the dish before the veal is done.

“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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