Name: To Roast Veal
Ingredients: 1 lb bread crumbs; 2 oz chopped suet; 1 egg; 1 tablespoon chopped parsley; Rind of ½ lemon, chopped; Pepper, to taste; Coarse sea salt, to taste; Melted butter, for basting

Why it works: Parsley and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

To Roast Veal

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the stuffing by mixing bread crumbs, chopped suet, egg, parsley, lemon rind, pepper, and salt.
Select the best parts of veal for roasting: fillet, breast, loin, or shoulder.
For the fillet and breast, remove the knuckle bone neatly and stuff with the prepared mixture.
Roll the stuffed fillet firmly and bind it with tape or string, allowing room for expansion.
Cover the ends with buttered paper and baste the veal frequently with melted butter.
Remove the paper shortly before the meat is done.
Transfer the veal to a hot dish, pour off the drippings, season, and mix the sediment with melted butter.
Pour the mixture around the veal and garnish with sliced lemon.

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.

Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together14,037 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together34,122 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together27,047 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together27,232 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together22,662 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).