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Sweet-herb Dressing for Veal

A dressing made with bread crumbs, lemon rind, mustard, ham, herbs, and seasonings 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, grated lemon rind, mustard, lemon juice, pepper, coarse sea salt, chopped ham, chopped parsley, powdered thyme, and summer savory in a bowl and mix thoroughly until 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. Parsley + thymetop 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. Lemon + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,973 recipes

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

  5. Parsley + summer savorytop 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 absorbent body of the dressing.
Grated lemon rind
Adds bright aromatic oil and a fresh citrus flavour.
Made mustard
Adds sharpness that balances the richness of the ham.
Chopped ham
Contributes savoury, salty flavour and some fat.

Swap the mustard

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

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

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