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Veal Loaf

A baked loaf made from chopped veal, eggs, crackers, salt, cream, pepper, summer savory, and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and summer savory work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 671 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Veal Loaf

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

Mix and bake

  1. In a large bowl, combine chopped veal, beaten eggs, crushed crackers, salt, cream, pepper, powdered summer savory, and butter.

  2. Mix the ingredients thoroughly until well combined.

  3. Transfer the mixture to a loaf pan.

  4. Bake for 1.5 hours in the preheated oven.

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.

Explore the science

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. Pepper + summer savorytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together671 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

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

  5. Pepper + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Chopped veal
Forms the main body of the loaf and gives it its meaty structure.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and help the loaf set firm as it bakes.
Crushed crackers
Absorb moisture and help hold the loaf together in slices.
Cream
Adds moisture and a softer, more tender texture to the loaf.
Butter
Adds fat, richness and flavour to the lean veal.

The step that matters

Mixing the ingredients thoroughly. Thorough mixing spreads the eggs and crackers evenly through the meat so the binder sets uniformly. Uneven mixing can leave pockets that crumble or bake unevenly.

Swap the summer savory

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, egg, cream, pepper, butter):

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Parsleyfits better
  3. Tarragonfits better
  4. Summer savorythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, egg, cream, pepper, butter. 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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