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Small Pain Be Veau, Ob, Veal Cake

A small veal cake made with finely chopped veal, beef kidney suet, spices, lemon rind, optional boiled ham, baked and served with brown gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: White pepper and mace are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,695 recipes. Both carry myrcene, which smells balsamic, herbaceous. The science ↓

Small Pain Be Veau, Ob, Veal Cake

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. Chop the veal and beef kidney suet very finely.

  2. In a bowl, combine the chopped meats with salt, white pepper, mace or nutmeg, and lemon rind.

  3. Mix everything thoroughly with a chopping knife.

Bake and serve

  1. Press the mixture smoothly into a small, round baking dish.

  2. Bake in a moderate oven at 350°F (175°C) for 1 hour and 15 minutes.

  3. Once done, lift it into a clean, hot dish and serve plain or with brown gravy.

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. White pepper + macetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,695 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  2. Veal + beeftop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,784 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  3. Beef + hamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,729 recipes

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

  4. Veal + hamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,264 recipes

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

  5. White pepper + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,658 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

What each ingredient does

Veal
Forms the main body of the cake, giving it a firm, sliceable texture when cooked.
Beef kidney suet
Adds fat that keeps the lean meat moist and tender during baking.
Salt
Seasons the meat and helps bind the mixture together.

The step that matters

Press the mixture smoothly into the dish. Pressing removes air pockets and packs the mixture evenly, so the cake holds together when lifted out and cooks at a uniform rate.

“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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