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Veal Pot Pie

A stew of veal and pickled pork with onions and celery, topped with biscuit squares and cooked until tender.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and celery are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 18,518 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Veal Pot Pie

Ingredients

Directions

Make the stew

  1. In a pot, combine veal, pickled pork, onions, and celery.

  2. Stew the mixture until almost done.

Add the biscuits and serve

  1. Roll out the biscuit dough and cut it into 2-inch squares.

  2. Add the biscuit squares to the stew and cook slowly for an additional 30 minutes.

  3. Serve hot.

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. Onion + celerytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,518 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Onion + biscuittop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together428 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Pork + oniontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,214 recipes

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

  4. Veal + porktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,930 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  5. Celery + biscuittop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together150 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

What each ingredient does

Veal
Provides the main meat, which becomes tender through slow stewing.
Pickled pork
Adds salty, savory flavor to the stew.
Onions
Break down during stewing to add sweetness and body to the broth.
Biscuit dough
Cooks in the stew to form a soft, dumpling-like topping.

The step that matters

Cooking the biscuit squares in the stew. Biscuit dough must simmer gently so its centre cooks through without the outside breaking apart or the stew scorching on the bottom. Slow heat lets the dough steam and set while absorbing flavor from the broth.

Swap the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, pork, onion, biscuit):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Garlicfits better
  3. Thymefits about as well
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, pork, onion, biscuit. 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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