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Fried Veal Cutlets

Fried veal cutlets served with a gravy made from the pan drippings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 18,971 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Fried Veal Cutlets

Ingredients

Directions

Fry the cutlets

  1. Heat lard or beef drippings in a frying pan until boiling hot.

  2. Season the cutlets with salt and pepper, then dredge them in flour.

  3. Fry the cutlets until browned on both sides, then remove from the pan.

  4. If there's excess grease, set it aside for later use.

Make the gravy and finish

  1. Reserve 1 tablespoon of grease and mix in 1 tablespoon of flour until smooth and brown.

  2. Gradually add 1 cup of cold water, seasoning with salt and pepper.

  3. Boil the gravy, then return the cutlets to the pan.

  4. Cover and let simmer gently for 15 minutes to soften the meat.

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. Beef + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,971 recipes

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

  2. Beef + vealtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,784 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + flourtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together50,459 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Veal + peppertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,049 recipes

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

  5. Beef + flourtop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together10,677 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Beef and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 10,677 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Flour
Coats the cutlets and, cooked in grease, thickens the gravy.
Veal cutlets
Main protein, browned in fat and then made tender by slow simmering.
Lard or beef drippings
Frying fat that browns the cutlets and forms the base of the gravy.

The step that matters

Simmering the cutlets gently. Once the gravy boils, the cutlets should simmer gently rather than boil hard. Steady low heat lets the connective tissue in the meat soften without toughening or drying the surface.

“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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