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Veal and Rice

A dish of veal cooked with rice, mace, and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and mace work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 932 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Veal and Rice

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the rice

  1. Pick out discolored grains from the rice, then wash and soak it in soft water for 30 minutes.

  2. Strain the rice and add it to the warm water with the veal.

Cook

  1. Add the mace while boiling the rice.

  2. Occasionally stir the rice to prevent burning.

  3. Season with salt after cooking.

Serve

  1. Once the veal is cooked, serve it on a dish with the rice around it.

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. Rice + macetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together932 recipes

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

  2. Veal + macetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,761 recipes

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

  3. Veal + ricetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,119 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Veal
Provides the main protein and meaty body of the dish.
Rice
Absorbs liquid and adds starchy bulk around the veal.
Mace
Adds a warm, aromatic spice flavor to the rice.

The step that matters

Stirring the rice occasionally. Rice settles and sticks to the bottom of the pot as it cooks, and the starch can scorch there. Occasional stirring keeps the grains moving and evenly heated.

Swap the mace

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

  1. Turmericfits better
  2. Celeryfits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. Macethe original

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

“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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