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Curried Veal

A veal dish flavored with curry powder, coconut, and apple, baked in a sealed paper bag.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 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 ↓

Curried Veal

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Mix flour, curry powder, and desiccated coconut on a plate.

  2. Season veal slices with salt and pepper.

  3. Add chopped apple to the veal.

  4. Coat the veal mixture with the curried flour.

Bake in a paper bag

  1. Place the mixture in a well buttered paper bag with cold water or stock.

  2. Seal the bag with wire clips. Fold in the corners of the bag.

  3. Cook in a preheated oven at 350°F (175°C) for 35 to 40 minutes.

  4. Remove the bag. Open the bag.

Serve

  1. Transfer contents to a hot dish.

  2. Sprinkle with lemon juice.

  3. Serve with plain rice.

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. Coconut + appletop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together274 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylethanol (rose, floral).

  3. Coconut + lemontop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Apple + lemontop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,551 recipes

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

  5. Coconut + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together969 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylethanol (rose, floral).

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

What each ingredient does

Veal
Provides the main protein, which turns tender and moist when cooked gently in steam.
Flour
Coats the veal and thickens the cooking liquid into a light sauce.
Curry powder
Supplies the spiced, aromatic flavour that defines the dish.
Desiccated coconut
Adds subtle sweetness and a toasted, rich aroma to the curried coating.
Sour apple
Adds acidity and softens into the sauce, balancing the spices.

The step that matters

Sealing the paper bag. If the bag is not tightly sealed, steam escapes and the veal dries out and the sauce stays thin. A well sealed bag traps moisture so the meat braises gently in its own juices.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, flour, coconut, pepper, lemon):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Mangofits better
  3. Orangefits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, flour, coconut, pepper, lemon. 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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