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Veal Pies

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Celery and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 16,012 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Veal Pies

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the veal into pieces and place in a stewpan with the onion, celery, sweet herbs, and a small amount of water.

  2. Warm through, then add more water and simmer gently until the veal is cooked.

  3. Strain the stock, let it cool, and remove the fat.

  4. Remove the bones and skin from the veal, season well, and place it in a pie dish lined with pastry.

  5. Chop the hard-boiled eggs and add them to the dish.

  6. Pound the ham or bacon, form into small balls with butter, and add to the pie.

  7. Add forcemeat-balls and fill the pie with the prepared stock, flavored with ketchup or chutney.

  8. Reserve some stock to pour hot into the pie after baking.

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. Celery + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Onion + celerytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,518 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Celery + ketchuptop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together456 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Onion + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42,912 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, celery, egg, ham, butter, ketchup, pepper):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Carrotfits better
  3. Leekfits about as well
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, celery, egg, ham, butter, ketchup, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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