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Jellied Veal

A dish of stewed veal set in its own gelatin, seasoned with onion, herbs, and optional celery or parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Sage and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,388 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Jellied Veal

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the veal

  1. Cut the veal into pieces and stew slowly in a small amount of water until tender.

  2. Remove the veal from the kettle and chop it finely.

  3. Return the chopped meat to the kettle with the cooking water.

Season and set

  1. Add salt, pepper, sage, onion, and finely chopped celery or parsley.

  2. Cook for 10 minutes, then pour into a square tin.

  3. Let it cool, then cut into slices and serve.

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. Sage + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,388 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Pepper + celerytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Sage + celerytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together723 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Veal
Provides the meat and, as it stews and cools, the gelatin that lets the dish set firm.
Cooking water (in the method)
Carries flavor from the stewed veal and helps form the moist, jellied texture.

The step that matters

Cooling the mixture in the tin. The set depends on natural gelatin from the veal and its cooking liquid. The mixture must cool fully and undisturbed so the gelatin can firm up into a sliceable jelly.

Swap the celery

The recipe marks celery as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, onion, sage, pepper):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Marjoramfits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, onion, sage, pepper. 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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