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A savory pie made with veal cutlets, ham, forced meat, mushrooms, egg yolks, and water, baked like a rump steak pie.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 13,580 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Ham Pies

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Cut the veal cutlets into medium-sized pieces.

  2. Season the veal with pepper and a little coarse sea salt.

  3. Layer the veal and ham slices alternately in a dish.

  4. Add the forced or sausage meat on top.

  5. Sprinkle with stewed mushrooms and the hard-boiled egg yolks.

  6. Pour in the water.

Bake

  1. Proceed to bake as you would a rump steak pie.

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 + mushroomtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,580 recipes

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

  2. Ham + meattop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,095 recipes

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

  3. Veal + mushroomtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,446 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  4. Meat + mushroomtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,423 recipes

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

  5. Ham + mushroomtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,486 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

What each ingredient does

Veal cutlets
Forms the main meat body of the pie, becoming tender as it cooks.
Ham
Adds salty, savoury flavour that contrasts with the mild veal.
Hard-boiled egg yolks
Add richness and a crumbly, creamy texture to the filling.
Water
Creates moisture and steam that helps the meat cook gently in the dish.

“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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