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Veal Galantine

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Pistachio and nuts match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 425 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Veal Galantine

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Layer chopped pistachio nuts in a cloth.

  2. Spread a layer of sausage meat over the nuts.

  3. Wrap the mixture in the cloth and boil for 6 hours.

  4. When half cold, tie tightly and press with heavy weights.

  5. When ready to serve, glaze and garnish with aspic jelly and parsley.

  6. Cut off the outer slice before serving to reveal the marbled appearance.

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. Pistachio + nutstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together425 recipes

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

  2. Pistachio + parsleytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together100 recipes

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

  3. Nuts + meattop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together111 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  4. Veal + parsleytop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,766 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Meat + vealtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,890 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Swap the parsley

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

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Turmericfits about as well
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pistachio, nuts, meat, veal. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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