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Veal Soup

A veal soup made with veal knuckle, rice, egg yolk, cream, and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Veal Soup

Ingredients

Directions

Make the broth

  1. Place the knuckle of veal in a large pot with 3 quarts of water and ¼ teaspoon of coarse sea salt.

  2. Add 1 tablespoon of rice and boil slowly, keeping the temperature just above simmering, until the liquid is reduced by half.

  3. Remove the pot from the heat.

Finish and serve

  1. In a separate dish, combine the egg yolk and 1 cup of cream, stirring well.

  2. Add a piece of butter to the cream mixture.

  3. Strain the hot soup into the cream mixture while stirring continuously.

  4. Beat the mixture well for one minute 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. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  2. Rice + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,645 recipes

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

  3. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Veal + ricetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,119 recipes

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

  5. Veal + buttertop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,381 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

What each ingredient does

Veal knuckle
Releases gelatin and savory flavor into the water as it simmers, giving the broth body.
Rice
Adds a little starch that helps thicken the broth slightly.
Egg yolk
Enriches the soup and thickens it into a smooth, creamy texture when gently heated.
Cream
Adds fat and richness, softening the broth's flavor and giving a silky mouthfeel.
Butter
Adds fat and a rounded, rich flavor to the cream mixture.

The step that matters

Strain the hot soup into the cream mixture while stirring continuously. Adding hot liquid to egg yolk can scramble the yolk. Stirring constantly and pouring slowly lets the yolk warm gradually so the soup stays smooth and thickens evenly.

“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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