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O Pot Age De Veau. — Veal Pottage.

A veal soup made with a knuckle of veal, carrots, onion, mace, chervil, flour, butter, and optional sour cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and chervil match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 355 recipes. Both carry methyleugenol, which smells clove, spice. The science ↓

O Pot Age De Veau. — Veal Pottage.

Ingredients

Directions

Make the soup

  1. Stew the knuckle of veal in 2 quarts of water with the carrots, onion, and mace until the meat is tender.

  2. Keep the meat warm while you prepare the soup.

  3. In a separate bowl, mix the minced chervil with the flour and butter until smooth.

  4. Add the mixture to the soup along with sliced carrot or young peas, pepper, and salt.

Serve

  1. Serve the meat on a dish of buttered rice.

  2. For added flavor, mix thick sour cream into the soup before serving.

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. Carrot + cherviltop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together355 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

  2. Carrot + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,555 recipes

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

  3. Carrot + oniontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together21,601 recipes

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

  4. Chervil + flourtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together232 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Chervil + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together867 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

What each ingredient does

Veal knuckle
Releases gelatin and savory flavor into the broth as it stews until tender.
Chervil
Adds a fresh, herbal aroma to the finished soup.
Flour
Thickens the soup slightly when mixed with butter and chervil.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, rounding out the flavor and smoothing the thickening mixture.
Sour cream
Adds richness and a tangy note to the soup when mixed in before serving.

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, carrot, onion, chervil, flour, butter, pepper):

  1. Parsleyfits better
  2. Tarragonfits better
  3. Capersfits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, carrot, onion, chervil, flour, butter, pepper. 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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