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Veal Stew

A layered stew of veal, potatoes, salt pork, onion, sage, salt, pepper, and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and sage match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,388 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Veal Stew

Ingredients

Directions

Layer the pot

  1. In a pot, spread a layer of sliced salt pork seasoned with salt, pepper, sage, and onion.

  2. Add a layer of potato slices, followed by a layer of seasoned veal.

  3. Repeat the layers until all ingredients are used, finishing with a layer of potato slices on top.

Cook

  1. Pour in enough water to cover the ingredients by 1 inch.

  2. Cover the pot tightly and heat for 15 minutes.

  3. Reduce heat and simmer for 2 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 + sagetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,388 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

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

  3. Potato + porktop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,668 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  4. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

  5. Pork + oniontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,214 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Veal
Provides the meat that becomes tender during long, slow simmering.
Potatoes
Form the layers that absorb cooking liquid and thicken the stew as they break down.
Salt pork
Adds fat and savory flavor that seasons the meat and liquid as it renders.

The step that matters

Reduce heat and simmer for 2 hours. Once the pot is covered and heated, the heat must drop to a gentle simmer. A hard boil toughens meat proteins and can break up the potatoes, while slow simmering lets collagen in the veal soften into tender meat.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, potato, pork, pepper, sage):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Carrotfits better
  3. Tomatofits about as well
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, potato, pork, pepper, sage. 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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