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Veal and Rice

A boiled veal neck with rice, bacon, onion, and salt served hot.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,433 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Veal and Rice

Oven, in the book's wordsA good oven

Ingredients

Directions

Make the stew

  1. Place the neck of veal in a pot half full of boiling water.

  2. Add the salt, bacon or salt pork, rice, and onion.

  3. Boil gently for 3 hours.

Serve

  1. Serve hot, placing the meat in the center of a platter with the rice arranged around it.

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. Rice + oniontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,433 recipes

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

  2. Pork + oniontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,214 recipes

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

  3. Pork + ricetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,137 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  4. Veal + porktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,930 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  5. Rice + clovetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,982 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Veal neck
Provides the main meat and rich flavor as it simmers slowly in the broth.
Bacon or salt pork
Adds fat and savory, smoky flavor to the broth.
Rice
Absorbs liquid as it cooks, thickening the stew and making it hearty.
Onion
Contributes aromatic sweetness and depth to the cooking liquid.

The step that matters

Boil gently for 3 hours. A gentle simmer keeps the veal tender and prevents the meat from toughening, while a hard boil can break up rice and make the broth cloudy.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, pork, rice, onion):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Turmericfits better
  3. Celeryfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, pork, rice, onion. 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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