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Veal Ob Chicken Souffle

A baked souffle made with veal or chicken, butter, flour, milk, parsley, and whipped egg whites.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and milk 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 Ob Chicken Souffle

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.

Make the base

  1. Melt butter and flour together in a saucepan over medium heat.

  2. Add salt, white pepper, and gradually stir in milk until smooth.

  3. Simmer until thickened, then add the chopped veal or chicken and stir well.

Fold and bake

  1. Set aside for 10 minutes, then gently fold in chopped parsley and whipped egg whites.

  2. Pour mixture into a buttered baking dish and bake at 350°F (175°C) for 15 minutes.

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.

Explore the science

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

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

  2. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Flour + parsleytop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together16,675 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. White pepper + parsleytop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  5. Flour + milktop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Butter and flour 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

Egg whites
Whipped to stiff foam, they trap air that lifts the souffle as it bakes and sets.
Milk
Forms the thickened white sauce base that holds the meat and the whipped whites together.
Butter and flour
Cooked together into a roux that thickens the milk into a smooth sauce.
Veal or chicken
Provides the main protein and savory flavor of the souffle.

The step that matters

Fold in the egg whites gently. Stiffly whipped egg whites hold air bubbles, and vigorous stirring deflates them. Gentle folding keeps the air so the souffle rises during baking.

Swap the white pepper

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

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Capersfits better
  3. Tarragonfits better
  4. White pepperthe original

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