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Veal Chops

Cracker-coated veal chops fried or broiled, served with a gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and wheat are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,418 recipes. Both carry (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, melon. The science ↓

Veal Chops

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Flatten the veal chops with a rolling pin.

  2. Pour boiling water over the chops and cook for 5 minutes.

  3. Remove the chops and pat them dry.

  4. Mix salt and pepper, then rub it onto each chop.

Coat and cook

  1. Dip each chop first in beaten egg, then in rolled crackers.

  2. Fry the chops in hot lard or beef drippings until golden brown.

  3. Alternatively, broil the chops over a bright fire until well done.

Make the gravy

  1. For gravy, add 1 tablespoon of fat to the pan after frying.

  2. Mix a small tablespoon of flour with cold water to make a thin batter.

  3. Stir the batter into the hot fat, season with salt and pepper, and cook until brown.

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.

Explore the science

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. Milk + wheattop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,418 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  2. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Pepper + beeftop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,971 recipes

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

  4. Beef + wheattop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together319 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  5. Veal + beeftop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,784 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Veal chops
Provide the meat that is flattened, cooked and served.
Egg
Binds the cracker coating so it adheres to the chop.
Rolled crackers
Form a crisp, browned crust around the chop.
Wheat flour
Thickens the pan fat into a gravy as it cooks.

The step that matters

Frying the chops in hot fat. If the fat is not hot enough, the cracker coating absorbs grease and turns soggy instead of forming a crisp, golden crust. Hot fat sears the coating quickly, sealing it before the meat dries out.

“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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