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Veal, Knuckle Of, Stewed

A slow‑cooked stew of veal knuckle with vegetables, rice, and parsley sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,053 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Veal, Knuckle Of, Stewed

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Separate the shank bone and place it with the veal in a large saucepan. Cover with boiling water.

  2. Bring to a boil, skim the surface, then add the diced vegetables, bouquet garni, and salt.

  3. Boil the ham or bacon separately.

Simmer

  1. Simmer the veal gently for about 3 hours.

  2. After 2 hours, wash the rice and add it to the saucepan.

Finish and serve

  1. Remove the meat from the broth and keep it warm.

  2. Discard the bones and bouquet garni.

  3. Season the broth to taste and serve separately.

  4. Pour a little parsley sauce over the meat and serve the rest in a tureen.

  5. Serve the ham or bacon on a separate dish.

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. Carrot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,053 recipes

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

  2. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Carrot + turniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,002 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Celery + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,810 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Turnip + celerytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,418 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

What each ingredient does

Veal knuckle
Provides the main meat and, through slow simmering, rich gelatin that gives the broth body.
Rice
Added late to thicken the broth as its starch softens during simmering.
Carrot
Adds sweetness and aroma to the broth as it cooks down.
Onion
Contributes savory depth and aroma to the broth.

The step that matters

Keeping the simmer gentle. A rolling boil toughens meat fibres and makes the broth cloudy, while a gentle simmer lets collagen slowly break down into gelatin, keeping the veal tender and the broth clear.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, ham, rice, carrot, turnip, celery, parsley):

  1. Leekfits better
  2. Parsnipfits better
  3. Okrafits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, ham, rice, carrot, turnip, celery, 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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