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Cold Veal Patties

Cold veal patties made with minced veal, lemon peel, flour, water, and pastry.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Veal and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,580 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Cold Veal Patties

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a quick oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare

  1. Prepare a good plain pastry for pies.

  2. Mince the veal and mix with a little grated lemon peel.

  3. Add flour and enough water to moisten the mixture.

Assemble and bake

  1. Line patty pans with the pastry.

  2. Pour the minced veal mixture into the lined pans.

  3. Cover with more pastry and scallop the edges.

  4. Bake in a 400°F (200°C) oven until golden.

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. Veal + lemontop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,580 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Lemon + flourtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,404 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Veal + flourtop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,886 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Veal
Provides the main filling, giving the patties their meaty body and savory flavor.
Flour
Absorbs moisture in the minced mixture, helping it hold together in the pastry.
Good plain pastry
Forms the crust that encloses the filling and browns during baking.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Raisinfits better
  2. Lemonthe original
  3. Coconutfits less well
  4. Cherryfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, flour. 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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