Skip to main content
Main

Veal Soup

A soup made from veal shank pieces simmered in water, seasoned with pepper and salt, enriched with milk, cream, and beaten eggs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Milk and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,399 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Veal Soup

Ingredients

Directions

Make the broth

  1. Cook the veal pieces in 2½ quarts of water until done.

  2. Strain the liquid.

  3. Wash the kettle.

  4. Return the liquid to the kettle.

  5. Add pepper and coarse sea salt to taste.

Finish and serve

  1. Set the kettle back on the stove.

  2. Stir in 1 quart of sweet milk and 1 quart of rich cream.

  3. Before serving, stir in the beaten eggs.

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.

Explore the science

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. Milk + creamtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,399 recipes

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

  2. Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

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

  3. Veal + peppertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,049 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + milktop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together26,984 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  5. Pepper + creamtop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together21,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

Pepper and cream barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 21,449 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Veal shank
Provides the meat and gelatin-rich liquid that gives the soup its body and flavour.
Sweet milk
Adds creaminess and mild sweetness to the broth.
Rich cream
Adds fat, richness and a smooth, velvety texture.
Eggs
Thicken the soup gently and add body when stirred in beaten.

The step that matters

Stir in the beaten eggs before serving. Eggs thicken by gentle heat. If the soup is kept at a hard boil after they go in, they can curdle and turn grainy, so add them off the boil and stir steadily.

“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.

More veal soup recipes

White 23Clear 4with Macaroni 3 See all 123 →

You might also like

Veal PattiesVeal Patties50 recipesBeef, Mutton, or Veal BrothBeef, Mutton, or Veal Broth6 recipesTomato SoupTomato Soup526 recipesBrown BreadBrown Bread461 recipes