Name: Veal Olives
Ingredients: large collops of veal; force-meat; oysters; sweetbreads; mushrooms; morels; brown gravy; lemon

Why it works: Veal and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,446 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Veal Olives

Ingredients

Directions

Cut large collops off a fillet of veal and hack them well with the back of a knife.
Spread a thin layer of force-meat over each collop, then roll them up.
Either fry or bake the rolled collops.
Make a ragout of oysters, sweetbreads, mushrooms, and morels cut into small pieces.
Place the ragout in a dish with the veal rolls.
Add nice brown gravy to the dish and serve hot, garnished with lemon.

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.

Veal + mushroomtop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,446 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
Meat + mushroomtop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,423 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Mushroom + lemontop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,633 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Oyster + mushroomtop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,299 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
Veal + lemontop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together4,580 recipes

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