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Mutton Cutlets a LA Milanaise

A dish of breaded mutton cutlets served with macaroni and Parmesan.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 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 ↓

Mutton Cutlets a LA Milanaise

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the cutlets

  1. Trim the cutlets of excess fat.

  2. Bread the cutlets by mixing grated Parmesan cheese with bread crumbs.

Cook the cutlets

  1. Fry the cutlets in ½ oz of butter until light brown.

  2. Season the fried cutlets with 1 teaspoon of coarse sea salt.

Plate and serve

  1. Boil the macaroni according to package instructions.

  2. Place the cooked macaroni in a mound in the center of a dish.

  3. Dust the macaroni mound with remaining grated Parmesan.

  4. Arrange the cutlets around the macaroni mound.

  5. Serve the dish hot.

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. Parmesan cheese + buttertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,163 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Mutton + breadtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,488 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Parmesan cheese + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together577 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Mutton cutlets
Lean meat that browns in butter and forms the main body of the dish.
Parmesan cheese
Adds savory, salty flavor and a crisp, browned crust when mixed with the crumbs.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp coating that helps the cutlets brown and hold together.
Egg
Helps the coating adhere to the cutlets.
Butter
Conducts heat and browns the cutlets, adding richness and aroma.

The step that matters

Frying the cutlets until light brown. Frying in butter over moderate heat browns the crumb coating through Maillard browning, which builds flavor and color. Overheating can scorch the butter and crumbs before the meat cooks through.

“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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