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Veal Cutlets

Veal cutlets coated in breadcrumbs, browned and simmered in a sauce of stock, flour, and Worcestershire.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Veal Cutlets

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the veal

  1. Wipe the veal.

  2. Remove the bone, skin, and tough membrane.

  3. Cut into serving pieces.

  4. Cover the bone and tough pieces with cold water and cook at a low temperature to make stock.

  5. Season the veal with salt and pepper.

Bread and brown

  1. Roll the veal in fine bread crumbs.

  2. Dip the veal in the beaten egg.

  3. Roll the veal in crumbs again.

  4. Melt 2 tablespoons of dripping or butter in a pan.

  5. Brown the cutlets in the hot fat.

  6. Transfer the browned cutlets to a stew pan.

Make the sauce and finish

  1. Melt 2 tablespoons of dripping in a pan for the sauce.

  2. Add ½ cup flour and stir to make a roux.

  3. Gradually add 1 pint of stock or water, stirring until smooth.

  4. Add Worcestershire sauce, chopped parsley, ½ teaspoon salt, and ½ teaspoon pepper.

  5. Pour the sauce over the cutlets.

  6. Cook at a low temperature for 1 hour, or until tender.

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 + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Flour + parsleytop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together16,675 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Veal cutlets
Form the main body of the dish, becoming tender during slow cooking in the sauce.
Fine bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating that browns in the hot fat and protects the meat.
Beaten egg
Acts as a glue so the bread crumbs stick evenly to the veal.
Flour
Forms a roux with the fat that thickens the stock into a smooth sauce.
Stock or water
Provides the liquid that becomes the sauce, carrying moisture to the cutlets.

The step that matters

Gradually add the stock to the roux. Adding liquid slowly while stirring lets the starch in the flour disperse evenly, preventing lumps and giving a smooth, well-thickened sauce.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, pepper, bread, egg, butter, sauce, flour):

  1. Capersfits about as well
  2. Parsleythe original
  3. Nutmegfits about as well
  4. Tarragonfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, pepper, bread, egg, butter, sauce, flour. 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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