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Fricasseed Yeal

Veal fricassee cooked by sautéing veal in butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Why it works: Veal and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 23% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,381 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Fricasseed Yeal

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Slice the veal into small, thick, equal-sized pieces.

Cook the veal

  1. Melt the butter in a wide stewpan over medium heat.

  2. Once the butter begins to boil, add the veal.

  3. Shake the pan over the heat until the veal is firm.

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. Veal + buttertop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,381 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Veal
Provides the main meat, which firms as its proteins set during gentle cooking.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and flavor, and cooks the veal without drying it.

The step that matters

Shake the pan over the heat until the veal is firm. Shaking keeps the pieces moving so they cook evenly and do not stick or brown unevenly. Firmness shows that the proteins have set, so the veal is cooked through without being overcooked.

“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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