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Raised Pie, of Veal and Ham

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Nutmeg and allspice match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,331 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Raised Pie, of Veal and Ham

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Make hot-water paste according to your recipe.

  2. Form the pie crust by hand or cut out pieces for the top and bottom, and a long piece for the sides.

  3. Attach the bottom and side pieces with egg, pinching the edges together.

  4. Line the pie with forcemeat, then add a layer of veal and season with salt, pepper, nutmeg, and allspice.

  5. Layer sliced bacon or cooked ham over the seasoning, followed by more forcemeat, veal, seasoning, and bacon, repeating until the meat is about an inch above the crust.

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. Nutmeg + allspicetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,331 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Pepper + allspicetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,395 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Pepper + nutmegtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together13,015 recipes

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

  4. Veal + hamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,264 recipes

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

  5. 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

Swap the nutmeg

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, ham, pepper, allspice):

  1. Clovefits better
  2. Marjoramfits better
  3. Thymefits about as well
  4. Nutmegthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, ham, pepper, allspice. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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