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Veal, Larded and Roast

A veal roast larded with bacon, braised and baked with vegetables and a brown sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 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, Larded and Roast

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the veal

  1. Saw the bones across, remove the short ends and skin, and fold the flap under.

  2. Lard the upper surface of the veal in close rows.

Braise

  1. In a stewpan, place the prepared vegetables, bouquet‑garni, peppercorns, and salt, then add stock to barely cover the vegetables.

  2. Lay the veal on top, cover with greased paper, and put on a lid that fits closely.

  3. Cook gently for 2 hours, adding more stock as necessary.

Roast and make the sauce

  1. Preheat a baking tin with a little hot dripping, then place the meat in it.

  2. Baste the meat and bake gently for 1 hour, basting well.

  3. In a stewpan, melt the butter, add the flour, and stir until it turns nut‑brown.

  4. Add ½ pint of stock, including that from the stewpan where the veal was braised, and stir until boiling.

  5. Simmer gently for a few minutes and season to taste.

Serve

  1. Serve the meat on a hot dish with the sauce in a tureen.

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.

Explore the science

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

Neck of veal
Provides the main meat, which becomes tender through long gentle cooking.
Larding bacon
Its fat melts into the lean veal, adding moisture and flavour during cooking.
Butter
Fat that cooks with the flour to form the base of the sauce.
Flour
Thickens the sauce as it cooks with the butter and browns.
Stock
Braises the veal and forms the liquid that makes the sauce.

The step that matters

Cook the flour and butter until nut-brown. Cooking the roux until nut-brown develops a deeper colour and toasted flavour, but it can scorch if left unattended, giving a bitter taste. Stirring constantly keeps it even.

Swap the onion

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, butter, flour, 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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