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Patties Resembling Mince Pies

Patties made with veal, fruit, and spices, baked like mince pies.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Patties Resembling Mince Pies

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.

Prepare the filling

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

  2. In a bowl, combine the chopped cold veal, fat, apple, candied orange and lemon peel, fresh currants, wine, cloves, brandy, and sugar. Mix well until all ingredients are combined.

Bake

  1. Fill pastry shells with the mixture.

  2. Bake in the preheated oven until golden brown.

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. Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

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

  2. Orange + clovetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,987 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Apple + clovetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,774 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Currant + brandytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  5. Apple + orangetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,230 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

What each ingredient does

Cold veal
Provides the meat base, and its fat adds moisture and richness to the filling.
Apple
Adds moisture and a mild sweetness that balances the spices and meat.
Candied orange and lemon peel
Adds concentrated citrus sweetness and aroma to the filling.
Fresh currants
Add tart, fruity sweetness and chewy texture to the filling.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the filling brown in the oven.

Flavor stand-ins for the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, apple, orange, lemon, wine, clove, brandy):

  1. Blackberrybetter flavor fit
  2. Grapebetter flavor fit
  3. Figbetter flavor fit
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, apple, orange, lemon, wine, clove, brandy. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

“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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