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Breaded Veal Cutlets

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 15 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 ↓

Breaded Veal Cutlets

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut veal into 3/4 inch thick cutlets, about the size of your palm.

  2. Grate stale bread and rub it through a sieve; mix in salt, pepper, marjoram, lemon rind, mace, and nutmeg on a flat dish.

  3. Dip each cutlet into beaten eggs, then coat with the bread mixture, ensuring it adheres well.

  4. Heat sweet lard and a small amount of butter in a pan until boiling; fry the cutlets, turning them three times to avoid burning.

  5. Place cooked cutlets in a hot, covered dish.

  6. For the gravy, sift flour into the fat in the pan, stirring until brown; add boiling water to achieve the desired consistency.

  7. Stir in chopped parsley and vinegar, then pour the hot gravy over the cutlets.

  8. Serve immediately.

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. Marjoram + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together687 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

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

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

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  5. Mace + nutmegtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,557 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

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, bread, pepper, marjoram, lemon, nutmeg, egg):

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

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

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