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Veal Cutlets with Chestnut Sauce

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Olive and chestnut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 448 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Veal Cutlets with Chestnut Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mop the cutlets with olive oil, salt, and cayenne pepper.

  2. Broil the cutlets until cooked through.

  3. Boil the chestnuts until tender, then press them through a sieve.

  4. Add cream, butter, and sugar to the chestnuts and mix well.

  5. Serve the chestnut sauce hot with the cutlets.

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. Olive + chestnuttop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together448 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Olive + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,263 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Chestnut + peppertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together826 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Chestnut + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together647 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Swap the chestnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, olive, cream, sugar, pepper):

  1. Chestnutthe original
  2. Pistachiofits about as well
  3. Walnutfits about as well
  4. Beansfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, olive, cream, sugar, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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