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Veal Sandwiches

A sandwich made with cooked veal, bread, cress, hard‑boiled eggs, and mayonnaise, with optional anchovy paste, ham, lemon pickle, and tomato butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and ham are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,536 recipes. Both carry 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, which smells popcorn, roasted. The science ↓

Veal Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Assemble

  1. Layer slices of bread with anchovy paste on the bottom.

  2. Add a layer of cress and then the veal.

Arrange and serve

  1. Cut the sandwiches into triangles and arrange them in a ring on a dish.

  2. Top each sandwich with stiff mayonnaise and anchovy shreds.

  3. Optionally, color some mayonnaise green and place it around the center spot.

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. Bread + hamtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  2. Bread + tomatotop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,013 recipes

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

  3. Bread + anchovytop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,260 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanol (green, fruity).

  4. Lemon + tomatotop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,592 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Egg + anchovytop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,330 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Cooked veal
Forms the savoury meat filling that gives the sandwich its body.
Mayonnaise
Adds richness and moisture, and a stiff version holds its shape on top.
Hard-boiled eggs
Add a soft, rich texture and mild savoury flavour to the filling.
Cress or other green stuff
Adds a fresh, peppery crispness that contrasts with the rich meat.

“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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