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Veal Roll

Veal pieces stuffed with bacon, garlic, parsley, onion, baked in tomato soup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Garlic and onion match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Veal Roll

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the filling

  1. Mix together bacon, garlic, parsley, onion, salt, and pepper.

  2. Fill veal pieces with the mixture and fasten with toothpicks.

Bake

  1. Dust the rolls with flour and place them in a casserole dish.

  2. Combine tomato soup and water, then pour over the rolls.

  3. Bake in a 350°F (175°C) oven for 1.5 hours.

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. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  3. Garlic + tomatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,076 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Garlic + parsleytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,308 recipes

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

  5. Parsley + walnuttop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together865 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Veal
Forms the wrapper around the filling and becomes tender during the long, moist braise.
Bacon
Adds fat and savory flavor that bastes the filling and seasons the meat from inside.
Tomato soup
Provides a moist, acidic sauce that tenderizes the veal and builds flavor as it bakes.
Flour
Dusted on the rolls to lightly coat the surface, helping the sauce cling and the exterior brown.

The step that matters

Bake in a 350°F (175°C) oven for 1.5 hours. Veal needs a long, moist bake so the connective tissue breaks down and the meat turns tender rather than tough. Keeping the rolls covered in sauce helps prevent the surface from drying out.

Swap the walnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (garlic, parsley, onion, pepper, veal, flour, tomato):

  1. Chickpeafits better
  2. Lentilsfits better
  3. Beansfits better
  4. Walnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against garlic, parsley, onion, pepper, veal, flour, tomato. 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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