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Veal Loaf

A loaf of ground veal and salt pork baked with crackers and seasonings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Veal Loaf

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

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

Shape the loaf

  1. In a large bowl, mix the veal, salt pork, eggs, crushed crackers, milk, salt, and pepper thoroughly.

  2. Shape the mixture into a long roll.

Bake

  1. Place the roll in a baking pan and bake for 2 hours, basting frequently with seasoned water.

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

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

  2. Veal + porktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,930 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  3. Pork + milktop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,386 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  4. Pepper + walnuttop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,039 recipes

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

  5. Pork + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,933 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

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

What each ingredient does

Veal
Forms the main body of the loaf and gives it a mild, tender meaty texture.
Salt pork
Adds fat that keeps the loaf moist and adds savory flavor as it cooks.
Eggs
Bind the meat and crackers so the loaf holds its shape when sliced.
Crushed crackers
Absorb juices and soften the texture, helping the loaf stay moist and tender.
Milk
Adds moisture that keeps the meat mixture soft during baking.

The step that matters

Basting with seasoned water during the long bake. Veal is lean and dries out over a two-hour bake. Frequent basting keeps the surface moist and helps the loaf stay juicy inside.

Swap the walnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, pork, egg, milk, pepper, butter):

  1. Walnutthe original
  2. Peasfits about as well
  3. Cocoafits about as well
  4. Lima beansfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, pork, egg, milk, pepper, butter. 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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