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Patties Resembling Mince Pies

A patty made from cold veal, fruit, spices, and wine, baked in pastry like a mince pie.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Patties Resembling Mince Pies

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Chop the kidney and fat of cold veal, apple, orange peel, lemon peel, and fresh currants.

  2. Mix in the wine, cloves, brandy, and sugar.

Bake

  1. Bake the mixture in pastry as you would for mince pies.

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. Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Orange + clovetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,987 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Apple + clovetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,774 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Currant + brandytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  5. Apple + orangetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,230 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

What each ingredient does

Cold veal
Provides the meaty base and richness that gives the filling its body.
Veal fat
Adds moisture and richness, keeping the filling juicy as it bakes.
Apple
Adds moisture and a fruity tartness that balances the sweetness.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps browning in the baked filling.
Brandy
Adds aroma and warmth to the filling.

Flavor stand-ins for the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, apple, orange, lemon, wine, clove, brandy):

  1. Blackberrybetter flavor fit
  2. Grapebetter flavor fit
  3. Figbetter flavor fit
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, apple, orange, lemon, wine, clove, brandy. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

“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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