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A Veal Potpie

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Veal and pork match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 4,919 recipes mention both. Both carry 4-heptenal, which smells creamy, biscuit. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

  1. Boil the veal until froth forms, then skim it off.

  2. Grease a pot with butter or render some salt pork.

  3. Add the veal, season with salt, pepper, and flour.

  4. Pour in enough of the boiling water to cover the meat and simmer for 1.5 hours.

  5. Prepare a biscuit-style crust with baking powder 20 minutes before serving.

  6. Cut three slits in the crust and place it over the pot.

  7. Boil for 10 minutes, checking every minute.

  8. Serve immediately before the crust falls.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Veal + porktop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,919 recipes

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

  2. Pork + buttertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together13,848 recipes

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

  3. Flour + buttertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together122,858 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Pork + peppertop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together22,067 recipes

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

  5. Veal + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,049 recipes

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

Flour and butter share little aroma chemistry, yet 122,858 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

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