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Veal Stew

A stew of veal strips, potatoes, eggs, milk, and flour simmered in water and seasoned with butter, salt, pepper, and parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Veal Stew

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Place the veal strips in a skillet and cover with cold water.

  2. Add the sliced potato and bring to a gentle simmer for 20 to 30 minutes, ensuring the water does not boil away.

Make the stew

  1. Once the meat is tender, add the milk and flour to the broth.

  2. Season with butter, salt, pepper, and parsley if desired.

  3. Slice the hard-boiled eggs and add them to the broth.

  4. Bring everything to a boil once and serve with or without toast.

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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  2. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Potato + milktop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Potato + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,456 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Veal
Provides the main protein, which becomes tender during slow simmering in the broth.
Potato
Breaks down slightly into the broth, adding body and a mild starchy thickness.
Eggs
Add richness and a soft, firm texture when sliced into the hot broth.
Milk
Adds creaminess and mild sweetness, softening the broth's savory flavour.
Flour
Thickens the broth as it heats, giving the stew a smoother, creamier body.

The step that matters

Keep the simmer gentle and the water covering the meat. A rolling boil toughens meat proteins and can reduce the liquid too fast, leaving the veal dry and tight. A gentle simmer lets connective tissue soften slowly while the broth stays at a steady level.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, meat, egg, milk, flour, butter, pepper):

  1. Potatothe original
  2. Asparagusfits about as well
  3. Capsicumfits about as well
  4. Shallotfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, meat, egg, milk, flour, butter, pepper. 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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