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Veal Broth

A clear broth made by simmering veal knuckle with water, rice, and optional herbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Thyme and marjoram match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,225 recipes. Both carry terpineol, which smells pine, woody. The science ↓

Veal Broth

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the veal into small pieces.

  2. Place the veal in a stewpan with water and rice.

Simmer

  1. Boil gently for 1.5 hours or longer.

  2. If desired, add chopped parsley, thyme, and lettuce for the last 5-6 minutes.

  3. Alternatively, add mace, parsley, thyme, and marjoram for flavor.

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. Thyme + marjoramtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,225 recipes

    Shared aroma: terpineol (pine, woody).

  2. Parsley + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  3. Parsley + marjoramtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,979 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  4. Parsley + lettucetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,483 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  5. Thyme + lettucetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together247 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

What each ingredient does

Knuckle of veal
Provides flavor and gelatin-rich body to the broth as it simmers.
Rice
Helps thicken the broth slightly as its starch releases during simmering.

Swap the parsley

The recipe marks parsley as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, rice, thyme, lettuce, mace, marjoram):

  1. Winter savoryfits better
  2. Sagefits about as well
  3. Parsleythe original
  4. Tarragonfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, rice, thyme, lettuce, mace, marjoram. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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