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Egg Cutlets

Egg cutlets made with grated cheese, chili, bread crumbs, and eggs, fried until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Cheese and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,130 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Egg Cutlets

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. Chop the hard boiled eggs finely.

  2. In a bowl, combine the chopped eggs, steeped bread crumbs, grated cheese, powdered chili, pepper, and salt.

  3. Add the yolk of the raw egg and mix everything together well.

  4. Shape the mixture into cutlet forms.

Coat and fry

  1. Dip each cutlet in the beaten egg white, then coat with dry bread crumbs.

  2. Fry the cutlets in ghee or butter until golden brown.

  3. Serve 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. Cheese + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

  2. Cheese + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,426 recipes

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

  3. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

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

  5. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Hard boiled eggs
Provide the bulk of the cutlet, giving it body and a firm, sliceable texture.
Raw egg yolk
Acts as a binder that holds the chopped mixture together when shaped.
Bread crumbs
Soak up milk to add moisture and softness inside the cutlet.
Grated cheese
Adds savoury richness and flavour, and helps bind the mixture.
Ghee or butter
Fat for frying that promotes browning and a rich, golden crust.

The step that matters

Fry until golden brown. The cutlets are fragile and coated in crumbs. Frying over moderate heat lets the crust brown and set before the outside burns or the coating falls away, while the inside warms 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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