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Veal Stew

A stew of veal strips, potatoes, eggs, milk, and flour, seasoned with butter, salt, pepper, and optional parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Veal Stew

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Place veal strips in a skillet and cover with cold water.

  2. Heat over medium heat, ensuring the water just covers the meat.

  3. Add the sliced potato and stew gently for 20-30 minutes, avoiding boiling away the water.

Finish the stew

  1. Once the meat is tender, add the fresh milk and flour mixed with a little milk.

  2. Season with butter, salt, pepper, and parsley if desired.

  3. Slice the hard boiled eggs and add them to the broth.

  4. Bring to a boil once and serve with or without toast.

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 + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  2. Potato + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,855 recipes

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

  3. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  4. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

  5. Potato + milktop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

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

What each ingredient does

Veal steak
Provides the main protein, which becomes tender as it stews slowly in the liquid.
Potato
Adds body and starch, thickening the broth slightly as it cooks.
Fresh milk
Adds creaminess and mild sweetness, softening the broth's savory flavor.
Flour
Thickens the milk and broth into a smooth, lightly body-rich sauce.
Hard boiled eggs
Add richness and substance, with firm whites and creamy yolks in the broth.

The step that matters

Keep the heat gentle while stewing. Boiling the water away or cooking too hard toughens the veal and reduces the broth. A gentle simmer keeps the meat tender and the liquid at the right level for the milk and flour to be added smoothly.

Swap the parsley

The recipe marks parsley as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, potato, egg, milk, flour, butter, pepper):

  1. Parsleythe original
  2. Nutmegfits about as well
  3. Cinnamonfits less well
  4. Turmericfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, potato, egg, milk, flour, butter, 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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