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Endive with Gravy of Veal

A dish of endive stewed in veal gravy, sweetened with sugar and finished with velouté sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and sauce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,147 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Endive with Gravy of Veal

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash and clean the endive thoroughly.

  2. Remove the outer leaves and blanch the heads in hot water.

  3. Transfer them to cold water and squeeze out as much water as possible.

Stew and serve

  1. Stew the endive in enough gravy to cover them.

  2. Add 1 teaspoon of sugar and salt to taste.

  3. When tender, stir in a little velouté sauce and serve hot.

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. Sugar + saucetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,147 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Endive + saucetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together129 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Endive + sugartop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together116 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

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

What each ingredient does

Endive
Forms the main body of the dish and becomes soft and tender when stewed.
Veal gravy
Provides moisture and savory flavor as the endive stews.
Sugar
Adds sweetness that balances the slight bitterness of endive.
Velouté sauce
Adds richness and a smooth, silky texture to finish the dish.

The step that matters

Squeezing out the water after blanching. Endive holds a lot of water after blanching. Removing as much as possible keeps the gravy from being diluted and lets the endive absorb its flavor during stewing.

Swap the endive

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, sauce):

  1. Mustardfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Horseradishfits better
  4. Endivethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, sauce. 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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