Why it works: Veal and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 3,056 recipes mention both. Both carry cis-3-hexenol, which smells green, grassy. The science ↓
The recipe
Ingredients
Contains: wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)
Directions
Season the fowl inside and out.
Baste the fowl with clarified veal suet just before serving.
Sprinkle dry bread crumbs thickly over the fowl, repeating this two or three times.
Place the fowl in a serving dish and serve.
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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.
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Veal + breadtop 8% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together3,056 recipes
Shared aroma: cis-3-hexenol (green, grassy).
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