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Creamed Veal

Creamed Veal is a dish of diced veal in a rich white sauce, served with optional peas, green pepper, mushrooms, celery, and curry powder.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Creamed Veal

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the veal

  1. Combine diced veal with lemon juice, nutmeg, celery salt, salt, and cayenne.

  2. Let it stand for 30 minutes.

Make and combine

  1. Prepare the rich white sauce using 2 tablespoons of flour for every 1 cup of rich milk.

  2. Stir in the veal and heat thoroughly.

Serve

  1. Serve the creamed veal on toast, in canapés, or in timbale cases, or as a border around rice or potatoes.

  2. Garnish with parsley and strips of green pepper or pimento.

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. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Lemon + celerytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,467 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Celery + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

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

  4. Lemon + nutmegtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,318 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Nutmeg + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together13,015 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Cooked veal
Provides the main protein and substance of the dish.
Rich white sauce
Forms the creamy base that coats and binds the meat.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the flavour of the rich sauce.

Swap the peas

The recipe marks peas as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, lemon, nutmeg, celery, pepper, sauce, mushroom):

  1. Chestnutfits better
  2. Walnutfits better
  3. Beansfits better
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, lemon, nutmeg, celery, pepper, sauce, mushroom. 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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