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Fillet of Veal Roasted

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Veal and ham are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and 3,264 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Fillet of Veal Roasted

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut off the knuckle of the leg of veal above the joint to create a fillet.

  2. Remove the bone and fill the space with stuffing.

  3. Add a layer of stuffing under the fat.

  4. Truss the fillet by drawing the fat around it and tie it with tape.

  5. Wrap the fillet in paper and place it a good distance from the fire.

  6. Roast until thoroughly cooked, with no red gravy visible.

  7. Serve with melted butter poured over and gravy around.

  8. Accompany with ham or bacon and fresh cucumbers if in season.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Veal + hamtop 15% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together3,264 recipes

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

  2. Butter + hamtop 16% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5,475 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  3. Veal + cucumbertop 23% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together439 recipes

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

  4. Veal + buttertop 23% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together9,381 recipes

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

  5. Butter + cucumbertop 24% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,185 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cucumber

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

  1. Onionbetter flavor fit
  2. Leekbetter flavor fit
  3. Potatobetter flavor fit
  4. Cucumberthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, butter, ham. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

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