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Excellent Meat Rolls

Meat rolls made from veal, chicken, or turkey, wrapped in puff pastry and baked.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,172 recipes. Both carry 1-butyl acetate, which smells fruity, banana. The science ↓

Excellent Meat Rolls

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the filling

  1. Pound the veal and chicken together as for potting.

  2. Make forcemeat according to the recipe in Chapter VI.

  3. Form the forcemeat into small rolls, no larger than a finger.

Wrap and bake

  1. Wrap the pounded meat around each roll, moistening with 1 teaspoon of water.

  2. Fold the rolls in puff pastry.

  3. Bake at 400°F (200°C) for 15 to 20 minutes, or until the crust is perfectly done.

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. Chicken + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  2. Veal + chickentop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,243 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-butanedione (buttery, creamy).

  3. Veal + mushroomtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,446 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  4. Chicken + hamtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,497 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Ham + mushroomtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,486 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

What each ingredient does

Half-roasted veal
Provides the main meaty body and flavour of the filling, pounded smooth to bind with the forcemeat.
Chicken or turkey
Adds tender, mild meat that softens the filling and helps it hold together when pounded.
Puff pastry
Its many thin layers puff and crisp in the hot oven, forming a flaky, golden wrapper.
Forcemeat
Gives the rolls a soft, fine texture and moisture that keeps the filling from drying out.

The step that matters

Bake at 400°F until the crust is perfectly done. Puff pastry relies on steam from its butter layers to rise and crisp. Too low a heat makes it greasy and pale, while over-baking dries the filling and darkens the crust too far.

“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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