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Veal Chops

Veal chops coated in cracker crumbs, fried, and garnished with lemon slices and parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Veal Chops

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Season the veal chops like you would for veal cutlets.

  2. Dredge the seasoned chops in cracker crumbs.

Cook and serve

  1. Fry the chops until golden brown.

  2. Garnish with slices of lemon and parsley 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. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

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

  2. Veal + lemontop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,580 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Veal + parsleytop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,766 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Veal chops
Main protein; the meat that is cooked and served.
Cracker crumbs
Forms a crisp, golden-brown coating that browns when fried.

The step that matters

Frying until golden brown. The crumb coating browns through Maillard reactions at frying heat. Too little heat leaves it pale and greasy, while too much browns the outside before the chop cooks through.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, lemon):

  1. Parsleythe original
  2. Marjoramfits about as well
  3. Sagefits about as well
  4. Tarragonfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, lemon. 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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