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Galantine Veal

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Capsicum and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,571 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Galantine Veal

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove the chine bone, tendons, and rib bones from the veal breast and flatten it.

  2. Spread the forcemeat evenly over the veal.

  3. Arrange lines of gherkins, capsicums, ham or bacon, hard-boiled yolks, and truffles on top.

  4. If available, sprinkle boiled calves' feet and pieces of fowl over the filling.

  5. Season with pepper and coarse sea salt.

  6. Roll the veal tightly and wrap it in a cloth, tying it securely.

  7. Stew the wrapped veal for at least 2 hours.

  8. Remove from the pot, press it flat, and let it cool completely.

  9. Unwrap the cloth before serving.

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. Capsicum + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,571 recipes

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

  2. Veal + truffletop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together815 recipes

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

  3. Ham + truffletop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together516 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Meat + hamtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,095 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Meat + truffletop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together527 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

Swap the capsicum

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, meat, ham, egg, truffle, pepper):

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Capsicumthe original
  3. Shallotfits about as well
  4. Leekfits about as well

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

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