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Cow-heel Cutlets

Boiled cow heel is sliced into cutlets, coated in egg and breadcrumbs, then fried until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Cow-heel Cutlets

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the meat

  1. Remove all unsightly bits from the boiled cow heel.

  2. Place the meat on a dish and cover with a clean dish, adding heavy weights on top.

  3. Once cold and firm, cut the meat into neat cutlets.

Coat and fry

  1. Dip each cutlet in the whisked egg, then coat with a mixture of bread crumbs, lemon peel, pepper, salt, and herbs.

  2. Fry the cutlets in boiling fat until golden brown.

Serve

  1. Serve on a hot napkin with cut lemon and a garnish of parsley.

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. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  4. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  5. Bread + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,588 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Cow-heel
Forms the main body of the cutlets, setting firm once chilled under weight.
Egg
Binds the crumb coating so it adheres to the cutlet during frying.
Bread crumbs
Forms a crisp, golden crust when fried in hot fat.
Lemon peel
Adds bright aroma and a touch of citrus flavour to the coating.

The step that matters

Pressing the cold meat before cutting. Weighting the boiled meat while it cools lets it set into a firm block. Cutting it warm or unpressed makes the cutlets crumble and lose their shape.

“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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