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Veal Cutlets Braised

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Pork and beef match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,690 recipes. Both carry 12-methyltridecanal, which smells tallowy, beefy. The science ↓

Veal Cutlets Braised

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Lard the veal cutlets on one side with pork fat.

  2. In a stewpan, place minced onions and carrots at the bottom.

  3. Lay the cutlets on top of the vegetables and cover with stock.

  4. Cook until the cutlets are thoroughly done.

  5. For a richer flavor, boil down the stock to glaze the cutlets or make a gravy with flour, roux, pepper, and salt.

  6. Strain the gravy before serving.

  7. Serve with tomato sauce, mashed potatoes, or vegetables like beans, peas, or cauliflower.

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. Pork + beeftop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,690 recipes

    Shared aroma: 12-methyltridecanal (tallowy, beefy).

  2. Carrot + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,555 recipes

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

  3. Carrot + tomatotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,606 recipes

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

  4. Onion + carrottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together21,601 recipes

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

  5. Onion + beeftop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,092 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

Swap the tomato

The recipe marks tomato as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, pork, onion, carrot, beef, flour, pepper):

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Turnipfits better
  3. Capsicumfits about as well
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, pork, onion, carrot, beef, flour, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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