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Veal Chops

Thin veal chops coated in egg and crackers, fried in lard or broiled, served with optional butter and milk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and wheat are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,418 recipes. Both carry (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, melon. The science ↓

Veal Chops

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Beat the veal chops flat with a rolling pin.

  2. Pour boiling water over the chops and let them sit for 5 minutes.

  3. Remove the chops, wipe them dry, and rub each with salt and pepper.

Coat and cook

  1. Dip the chops in beaten egg, then coat with rolled crackers.

  2. Fry the chops in hot lard or beef dripping until golden brown.

  3. Alternatively, broil the chops over a clear fire until well done.

  4. If broiling, place the chops on a dish with sweet butter and turn them in the butter before serving.

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. Milk + wheattop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,418 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  2. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

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

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

  4. Beef + wheattop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together319 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  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

What each ingredient does

Veal chops
Provide the main meat, which is beaten flat so it cooks evenly and tenderly.
Beaten egg
Acts as a binding layer that helps the cracker coating stick to the chops.
Rolled crackers
Form a crisp, browned crust when the chops are fried or broiled.
Lard or beef dripping
Conducts heat for frying and adds fat that browns the coating and adds richness.

The step that matters

Frying until golden brown. Fat that is hot enough sets the egg and cracker coating quickly, so it browns and crisps rather than soaking up grease and turning soggy.

“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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