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Minced Veal Rissoles

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Mushroom and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,536 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Minced Veal Rissoles

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the cold roast fillet of veal into small dice.

  2. Mix the diced veal with white sauce and chopped mushroom.

  3. Place a portion of the mixture in the center of a round pastry cut with a 3.5-inch cutter.

  4. Egg the edges of the pastry and fold it into a turnover shape.

  5. Egg the rissoles and roll them in broken vermicelli or bread crumbs.

  6. Fry the rissoles in hot lard until golden brown.

  7. Drain on paper and serve on a napkin with fried parsley.

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. Mushroom + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

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

  2. Mushroom + parsleytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,132 recipes

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

  3. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  4. Veal + mushroomtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,446 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (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

Swap the parsley

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

  1. Capersfits about as well
  2. Parsleythe original
  3. Nutmegfits about as well
  4. Marjoramfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, sauce, mushroom, egg, bread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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