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Veal Kidneys Stewed with Spring Onions

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Veal Kidneys Stewed with Spring Onions

Oven, in the book's wordsA very hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Trim excess fat from the veal cutlets.

  2. In a stew pan, combine cutlets, spring onions, parsley, lemon peel, salt, and mixed spices.

  3. Sprinkle with flour and fry until golden brown.

  4. Dissolve Liebig’s Extract in boiling water and stir into the pan to avoid lumps.

  5. Add kidneys cut into square pieces and simmer for 20 minutes.

  6. After 20 minutes, add breadcrumbs and Madeira, then cook for another 15 minutes.

  7. Serve with red-currant jelly and crispy-fried potato chips.

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. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Lemon + gingertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,154 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Onion + parsleytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Onion + gingertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,595 recipes

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

  5. Ginger + macetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,152 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

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

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, onion, parsley, lemon, ginger, mace, flour):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Orangefits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, onion, parsley, lemon, ginger, mace, flour. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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