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Sauce for Hashed or Minced Veal

A sauce made from veal bones, flour, broth, onion, lemon, mace, butter, and toasted bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Sauce for Hashed or Minced Veal

Ingredients

Directions

Make the sauce

  1. Dredge the veal bones with flour and place them in a stew pan.

  2. Add broth or water, onion, lemon peel, salt, and pounded mace.

  3. To thicken, rub flour into butter and stir into the broth.

  4. Heat gently for about 30 minutes, then strain through a sieve.

Finish and serve

  1. Warm the veal by placing the stew pan by the fire.

  2. Squeeze in lemon juice and cover the dish with toasted bread sippets.

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.

Explore the science

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Onion + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42,912 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Onion + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,676 recipes

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

  5. Lemon + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,227 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Veal bones
Give the sauce its meaty flavour as they simmer in the broth.
Flour
Thickens the broth and gives the sauce body as it cooks.
Butter
Adds richness and helps flour blend smoothly into the broth.
Broth or water
Forms the liquid base that the sauce is built on.
Lemon
Adds acidity and brightness that lifts the savoury flavours.

The step that matters

Thicken with flour and butter. Rubbing flour into butter before stirring it into hot liquid helps prevent lumps, because the fat coats the flour particles so they disperse rather than clump.

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, flour, onion, lemon, butter, bread):

  1. Parsleyfits better
  2. Capersfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, flour, onion, lemon, butter, bread. 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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