Name: Stewed Veal
Ingredients: veal cut for cutlets; veal stock; Brussels sprouts; cream; flour; coarse sea salt

Why it works: Cream and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 30,481 recipes. Both carry acetaldehyde, which smells pungent, ethereal. The science ↓

Stewed Veal

Ingredients

Directions

Stew the veal in veal stock until tender.
Boil the Brussels sprouts, then strain off the water.
Arrange the Brussels sprouts around the veal on a serving dish.
Strain the gravy from the veal, thicken it with cream and flour, and season with coarse sea salt.
Pour the thickened gravy over the meat before serving.

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.

Cream + flourtop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together30,481 recipes

Shared aroma: acetaldehyde (pungent, ethereal).
Veal + creamtop 27% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together3,202 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).
Veal + flourtop 28% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together5,886 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Brussels sprouts + flourtop 35% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together7 recipes

Shared aroma: cis-3-hexenal (green, grassy).
Brussels sprouts + creamtop 41% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together3 recipes