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Sweet-herb Dressing for Veal

A savory dressing made with bread crumbs, herbs, lemon rind, mustard, ham, and parsley, suitable for veal.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Thyme and summer savory match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 214 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Sweet-herb Dressing for Veal

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine the bread crumbs, powdered thyme, summer savory, grated lemon rind, prepared mustard, lemon juice, pepper, coarse sea salt, chopped ham, and chopped parsley in a large bowl and mix thoroughly until all ingredients are well combined.

  2. The dressing is now ready for use.

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. Thyme + summer savorytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together214 recipes

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

  2. Thyme + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  3. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

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

  4. Thyme + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,973 recipes

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

  5. Summer savory + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together241 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

What each ingredient does

Bread crumbs
Provides the bulk and body that holds the dressing together.
Powdered thyme
Adds a concentrated herbal aroma that defines the dressing's flavour.
Summer savory
Contributes a peppery, herbal aroma typical of savory dressings.
Chopped ham
Adds savoury, salty flavour and a meaty texture throughout the mixture.

Swap the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, thyme, summer savory, lemon, pepper, ham, parsley):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Carrotfits better
  3. Okrafits about as well
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, thyme, summer savory, lemon, pepper, ham, parsley. 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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