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Scollops Op Cold Veal

A dish of minced cold veal shaped into scallop shells, seasoned, breaded, browned, and served with catsup or mushroom sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Scollops Op Cold Veal

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Mince the cold veal extremely small and place it in a saucepan over medium heat.

  2. Season with nutmeg, pepper, salt, and cream.

Assemble and brown

  1. Spoon the mixture into scallop shells.

  2. Cover with bread crumbs and dot with butter.

  3. Brown under a broiler until golden.

Serve

  1. Serve hot with catsup or mushroom sauce.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

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

  3. Nutmeg + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together13,015 recipes

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

  4. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Bread + mushroomtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Cold veal
Forms the main body of the filling, providing protein and savory meaty flavor.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness so the minced veal stays soft and creamy.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden topping when browned under the broiler.
Butter
Adds fat that helps the topping brown and gives a rich flavor.

The step that matters

Brown under a broiler until golden. The broiler browns the bread crumbs and butter quickly, so the topping can scorch if left unattended. Watching closely gives an even golden color without burning.

Swap the nutmeg

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, pepper, cream, bread, butter, mushroom):

  1. Parsleyfits about as well
  2. Nutmegthe original
  3. Thymefits about as well
  4. Marjoramfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, pepper, cream, bread, butter, mushroom. 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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