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Roasted veal loin served with butter, gravy, lemon, and vegetables.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,227 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Roasting Meat

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Roast

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. Roast the loin of veal for about 3 hours, ensuring the ends are well done.

  3. Halfway through, hang the joint by the middle to cook evenly.

Serve

  1. Serve with kidney on toast or in the joint, garnished with sliced lemon.

  2. Mix melted butter with brown gravy and serve with vegetables.

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. Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,227 recipes

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

  2. Veal + lemontop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,580 recipes

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

  3. Veal + buttertop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,381 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Loin of veal
Forms the main joint of meat, which provides the body and substance of the dish.
Melted butter
Adds richness and moisture to the gravy served with the meat.

The step that matters

Halfway through, hang the joint by the middle to cook evenly. A large roast cooks unevenly because the outer parts heat faster than the centre. Turning or repositioning the joint partway through helps the heat reach the thick middle and the ends at a similar rate, so the meat finishes uniformly.

“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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