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Rognons De Veau H Pain Roti

A French dish of veal kidneys mixed with bread crumbs, herbs, and eggs, baked and served with a clear sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Rognons De Veau H Pain Roti

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut pieces of bread and place them on a baking dish.

  2. Mince veal kidneys with their fat, parsley, green onions or shallot, pepper, and salt.

  3. Mix the minced ingredients with the yolks and whites of the eggs.

Assemble and bake

  1. Spread the mixture over the bread.

  2. Brush the mixture with a beaten egg.

  3. Sprinkle the top with grated bread.

  4. Cook in a baking dish with heat from above and below.

Serve

  1. Serve with a clear sauce.

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. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  2. Parsley + oniontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 recipes

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

  3. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. Bread + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,588 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Veal kidneys
Provide the meaty, savoury base of the topping.
Eggs
Bind the minced mixture and help it set when baked.
Crumb of bread
Forms the crisp base the topping sits on.
Fat from veal kidneys
Adds richness and moisture to the minced mixture.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, veal, parsley, pepper, egg):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, veal, parsley, pepper, egg. 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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