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Breaded Cutlets

Breaded cutlets served with mashed potatoes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and sage match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,388 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Breaded Cutlets

Ingredients

Directions

Bread the cutlets

  1. Season the beaten eggs with salt, pepper, and sage.

  2. Dip the cutlets into the seasoned eggs.

  3. Coat the cutlets with rolled cracker or bread crumbs.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry the cutlets slowly in oil until thoroughly cooked.

  2. Serve with mashed potatoes.

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. Pepper + sagetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,388 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Pepper + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

  3. Sage + potatotop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together386 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

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

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

  5. Sage + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,778 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the coating to the cutlets and help the crumbs adhere.
Rolled cracker or bread crumbs
Form a crisp, browned outer crust when fried.
Cutlets
Provide the main protein that the coating surrounds and cooks through.

The step that matters

Fry the cutlets slowly in oil until thoroughly cooked. Frying too fast over high heat can brown the crumbs before the inside is cooked through, leaving the center underdone. Slow, moderate frying lets heat reach the middle while the coating turns golden and crisp.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, pepper, sage, bread):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Sweet potatofits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, pepper, sage, bread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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