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Veal Fricandos

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Nutmeg and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 18,623 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Veal Fricandos

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Rub the veal steaks with the egg yolk.

  2. Season with white pepper, nutmeg, and coarse sea salt.

  3. Lard the steaks with small lardons.

  4. Dredge the steaks with flour.

  5. Brown the steaks over a fire until they are a fine brown.

  6. Transfer the browned steaks to a stew pan.

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. Nutmeg + flourtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,623 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. White pepper + nutmegtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,375 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Egg + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Egg + nutmegtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together24,744 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  5. Veal + nutmegtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,542 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

Egg and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 106,462 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the white pepper

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

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Turmericfits better
  3. Capersfits better
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, egg, nutmeg, flour. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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