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To Ese Up Cold Veal

A veal stew made with butter, flour, broth, orange peel, herbs, and egg yolk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Thyme and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,057 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

To Ese Up Cold Veal

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the egg mixture

  1. Beat the egg yolks with cold water and nutmeg in a bowl.

Make the stew

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

  2. Sprinkle in the flour and stir until well mixed and bubbly.

  3. Add the water or broth, orange peel, herbs, bay leaf, and garlic.

  4. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly until thickened.

  5. Season with salt and add the veal, simmering for 10 minutes.

  6. Remove from heat and gently stir in the egg yolk mixture.

Serve

  1. Extract the herbs and garlic, then serve over toasted bread.

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 + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Nutmeg + parsleytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,062 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Nutmeg + thymetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,907 recipes

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

  4. Orange + thymetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together442 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Nutmeg + orangetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,746 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

What each ingredient does

Veal
Provides the meat that becomes tender during the short simmer.
Egg yolks
Thicken the stew gently and add richness when stirred in off the heat.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, and forms the base for the flour roux.
Flour
Thickens the liquid with the butter to give the stew body.

The step that matters

Adding the egg yolk mixture. Egg yolks thicken by gentle heat. Adding them off the heat and stirring gently keeps them from scrambling, which would leave the stew grainy.

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, egg, nutmeg, butter, flour, thyme, parsley):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Figfits about as well
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, egg, nutmeg, butter, flour, thyme, parsley. 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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