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Shoulder of Veal Stuffed

A veal shoulder is stuffed with bread crumbs, herbs, butter, suet, and pork or ham, then baked with potatoes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Shoulder of Veal Stuffed

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a hot oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare the veal

  1. Remove the bone from the shoulder of veal without cutting through the outer skin.

  2. Stuff the cavity with bread crumbs, thyme, parsley, nutmeg, butter, and beef suet, moisten the stuffing with milk or hot water, and bind the mixture with a beaten egg.

  3. Add slips of fat pork or ham and season the stuffing with salt and pepper.

  4. Sew and truss the shoulder into shape, placing it in a baking pan with the bones underneath.

Roast

  1. Brown the veal quickly in a hot oven at 400°F (200°C).

  2. Season the veal with salt and pepper and dredge it with flour.

  3. Baste the veal with drippings.

  4. Bake for about 20 minutes per pound, or until the gravy shows a trace of red color.

  5. An hour before the veal is done, peel the potatoes and add them to the pan, turning occasionally.

Serve

  1. When the veal is done, arrange the potatoes around it on a hot platter.

  2. Make gravy by stirring a heaping tablespoon of flour into the drippings in the pan, browning it, then gradually stir in a pint of boiling water.

  3. Season the gravy with salt.

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. Thyme + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Parsley + nutmegtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,062 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Thyme + nutmegtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,907 recipes

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

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

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

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Veal shoulder
Forms the main body of the dish and becomes tender and juicy as it roasts slowly.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and liquid from the stuffing, giving it a soft, cohesive body.
Beef suet
Adds fat that keeps the stuffing moist and rich during roasting.
Egg
Binds the stuffing so it holds together when sliced.
Flour
Dredged on the veal and browned in the drippings to thicken the gravy and aid browning.
Potatoes
Roast in the pan drippings, absorbing fat and flavour while browning at the edges.

The step that matters

Brown the veal quickly in a hot oven. A short, hot start sears the surface, building browned flavour and a crust that helps seal in juices before the slower roast.

Swap the thyme

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, bread, parsley, nutmeg, butter, beef, milk):

  1. Cinnamonfits about as well
  2. Marjoramfits about as well
  3. Thymethe original
  4. Sagefits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, bread, parsley, nutmeg, butter, beef, milk. 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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