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Veal Koll

A baked casserole of pork steak, veal, crackers, eggs, and herbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pork and veal are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,930 recipes. Both carry 4-heptenal, which smells creamy, biscuit. The science ↓

Veal Koll

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.

  1. Mix the pork steak, veal, crushed crackers, thyme, and eggs thoroughly.

  2. Transfer the mixture to a baking dish and bake at 350°F (175°C) for 1 hour.

  3. Spread the remaining eggs and crushed crackers over the top and return to the oven to brown.

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. Pork + vealtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,930 recipes

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

  2. Pork + thymetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,108 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

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

  4. Thyme + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,758 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Pork steak
Adds fat and richness, keeping the loaf moist as it bakes.
Veal
Forms the fine, tender body of the loaf.
Crackers
Absorb juices and help bind the meat so the loaf holds together.
Eggs
Set as the loaf bakes, giving it a firm texture and a crust on top.

The step that matters

Browning the top layer. The egg and cracker topping sets into a crust while the cracker crumbs toast and brown. Egg proteins set at moderate heat, but too long in a hot oven dries the surface and darkens it before the loaf is heated through.

Swap the thyme

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

  1. Sagefits better
  2. Parsleyfits about as well
  3. Nutmegfits about as well
  4. Thymethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, veal, egg, 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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