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Veal Pie

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 21 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Veal Pie

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut veal chops from the neck or breast, or use cutlets from any part.

  2. Season the meat with coarse sea salt, black pepper, mace, nutmeg, lemon peel, and herbs.

  3. Layer the seasoned meat in a dish and cover with thin slices of bacon.

  4. Pour in a little gravy made from bones or trimmings, or use water.

  5. Add forcemeat balls, hard boiled yolks, sweetbreads, kidneys, truffles, mushrooms, oysters, and thick cream for richness.

  6. Spread slices of veal with forcemeat, roll them up, and place in the pie.

  7. Make a hole in the top crust and pour in good gravy after baking.

  8. For a rich pie, add olives, small forcemeat balls, pickled cucumbers, and pickled mushrooms around the olives.

  9. Pour in well-seasoned, thickened, and strained gravy enriched with white wine and lemon juice.

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. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Mace + nutmegtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,557 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Truffle + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,900 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  4. Nutmeg + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,318 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + nutmegtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together13,015 recipes

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

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

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, pepper, nutmeg, lemon, egg, truffle, mushroom):

  1. Parsleyfits better
  2. Marjoramfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, pepper, nutmeg, lemon, egg, truffle, mushroom. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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