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Veal Loaf

A baked loaf made from finely chopped veal, salt pork, eggs, crackers, breadcrumbs, milk, lemon, and ketchup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Veal Loaf

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Chop the veal and salt pork together finely.

Mix and bake

  1. In a large bowl, mix the chopped meat with salt, pepper, eggs, rolled crackers, bread crumbs, milk or cream, lemon juice, and tomato ketchup until well combined.

  2. Transfer the mixture to a cake tin.

  3. Bake in a preheated oven at 350°F (175°C) for 3 hours.

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. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Pepper + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Bread + tomatotop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,013 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Pork + tomatotop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,843 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Lemon + tomatotop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,592 recipes

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

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 loaf, giving it substance and a firm, sliceable texture.
Salt pork
Adds fat, which keeps the lean veal moist and adds savoury flavour.
Eggs
Bind the meat and crumbs so the loaf holds its shape when sliced.
Rolled crackers
Absorb juices and help bind the mixture, keeping the loaf tender.
Bread crumbs
Soak up liquid and add softness, so the loaf does not turn dense.
Tomato ketchup
Adds moisture, mild sweetness and acidity to the mixture.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, pork, pepper, egg, bread, milk, tomato):

  1. Lemonthe original
  2. Cherryfits about as well
  3. Plumfits less well
  4. Mangofits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, pork, pepper, egg, bread, milk, tomato. 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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