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Veal Cutlets

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Marjoram and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 957 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Veal Cutlets

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Season the cutlets with salt and pepper.

  2. Mix grated stale bread, chopped marjoram, lemon peel, and mace or nutmeg on a flat dish.

  3. Dip each cutlet in the beaten egg, then coat with the bread mixture, ensuring both sides are covered.

  4. Heat beef dripping, lard, or butter in a frying pan over medium-high heat until boiling.

  5. Fry the cutlets thoroughly, turning to avoid burning.

  6. Keep the cooked cutlets warm in a covered dish.

  7. Skim the fat from the pan, add a little flour, and stir to make gravy.

  8. Pour the hot gravy around the cutlets and garnish with curled parsley.

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. Marjoram + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together957 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Pepper + marjoramtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,609 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

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

  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

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, pepper, bread, marjoram, lemon, egg, beef):

  1. Parsleyfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Sagefits better
  4. Macethe original

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

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