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Minced Veal

A rolled minced veal dish wrapped in butter paper, baked and served with parsley or lettuce and optional brown sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Minced Veal

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare the roll

  1. Grate the yellow rind of the lemon.

  2. Mix the grated lemon rind with the veal thoroughly.

  3. Form the mixture into a roll and wrap it in buttered paper.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake the roll in a 350°F (175°C) oven for 20 minutes.

  2. Remove the paper carefully without breaking the roll.

  3. Serve on a bed of parsley or lettuce, or with brown sauce or meat gravy.

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. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Butter + saucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15,338 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Butter + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together28,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  4. Lemon + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,227 recipes

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

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

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

Butter and sauce barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 15,338 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
Forms the body of the roll, providing protein that sets into a sliceable structure when baked.
Lemon rind
Adds bright, fragrant citrus aroma that lifts the rich meat flavour.
Butter
Keeps the wrapping paper from sticking and adds richness to the outside of the roll.

The step that matters

Remove the paper carefully without breaking the roll. The roll is held together only by the cooked meat proteins, which are fragile when hot. Tearing or rushing the paper removal can split the roll and spoil its neat shape.

“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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