Name: Yeal Cutlets, a LA Fried Oysters
Ingredients: veal; salt; 1 beaten egg; crackers; lard or butter

Why it works: Egg and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and 118,967 recipes mention both. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Yeal Cutlets, a LA Fried Oysters

Ingredients

Directions

Cut the veal into small pieces, about 3 to 4 inches square.
Dry the pieces with a towel and season with salt to taste.
Place the beaten egg in one dish and the finely rolled crackers in another.
Dip each piece of veal in the egg, then coat with the rolled crackers.
Heat enough lard or butter in a skillet until hot.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together118,967 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Veal + buttertop 23% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together9,381 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Veal + eggtop 28% of all pairs

Aroma overlaplow

Mentioned together6,845 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).