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A Very Nourishing Veal-broth

A nourishing broth made from veal, water, salt, pepper, and optional vegetables.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Veal and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,049 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

A Very Nourishing Veal-broth

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut veal into small pieces.

  2. Place veal in a pot and cover with water.

  3. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Simmer and serve

  1. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 2-3 hours.

  2. Add vegetables if desired for extra flavor.

  3. Strain the broth and serve warm.

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. Veal + peppertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,049 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Veal
Supplies collagen and flavor that dissolve into the broth during long simmering.
Water
Extracts flavor and gelatin from the veal as the liquid for the broth.

The step that matters

Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer. Keeping the liquid at a gentle simmer rather than a hard boil produces a clearer broth. A rolling boil emulsifies fats and proteins into the liquid, making it cloudy and greasy.

“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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