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Veal Stock

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Clove and nutmeg match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,686 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Veal Stock

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a pot, combine chopped onion and sweet herbs.

  2. Add beaten mace, cloves, and grated nutmeg; stew until tender.

  3. Pour in Madeira wine and simmer for 15 minutes.

  4. Beat egg whites with lemon juice; add to the pot and boil.

  5. Strain through a flannel bag and heat again.

  6. Melt butter in a stew pan; gently cook the white meat until nearly tender.

  7. Cover lungs and heart with veal stock, onion, herbs, and spices; stew until tender.

  8. Remove lungs, strain the liquid, thicken it, and add Madeira, salt, and Cayenne pepper.

  9. Return lungs and white meat to the pot; stew gently for 15 minutes.

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. Clove + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,686 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Mace + nutmegtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,557 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Nutmeg + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,318 recipes

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

  4. Mace + clovetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,400 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

  5. Clove + lemontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,150 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mace, clove, nutmeg, madeira wine, egg, lemon, butter):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Leekfits better
  3. Carrotfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mace, clove, nutmeg, madeira wine, egg, lemon, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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