Name: Veal Pot Pie
Ingredients: veal; pie crust; escaloped oysters; celery; slaw; tapioca; sugar; cake

Why it works: Veal and celery are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,336 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Veal Pot Pie

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 the pie crust and line a pie dish.
Cook the veal until tender, then cut into pieces.
Layer the veal and escaloped oysters in the pie crust.
Add chopped celery and slaw on top.
Bake in a moderate oven at 350°F (175°C) until the crust is golden.
Serve with tapioca cream and cake for dessert.

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.

Veal + celerytop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,336 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
Veal + oystertop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together988 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).
Oyster + celerytop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,131 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
Celery + sugartop 33% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together4,794 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
Oyster + sugartop 34% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together562 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).