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A Cheap Veal-Broth

A simple veal broth made with veal knuckle or neck, rice, water, mace, and seasoning.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and mace work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 932 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

A Cheap Veal-Broth

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the veal with rice in water until reduced to 3 pints.

  2. Add the blade of mace and any additional seasoning towards the end of boiling.

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. Rice + macetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together932 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  2. Veal + macetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,761 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  3. Veal + ricetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,119 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Veal knuckle or neck
Provides collagen and meaty flavour that gives the broth body and savouriness as it simmers.
Rice
Helps thicken the broth slightly and adds a mild body as it cooks down.

The step that matters

Reducing the broth to 3 pints. Boiling concentrates flavour and draws gelatin from the bones and connective tissue. Reducing too far makes the broth overly strong, while stopping too early leaves it thin and weak.

Swap the mace

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

  1. Turmericfits better
  2. Celeryfits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, rice. 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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