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From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Meat and butter match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 7,587 recipes mention both. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

  1. Cut thin slices from the uncooked leg of meat.

  2. Heat a good-sized piece of butter in a frying pan.

  3. Add the meat slices to the pan and turn them often until cooked.

  4. Keep the meat hot while you fry the chopped herbs in the same pan.

  5. Moisten the herbs with a little broth and let them stew for a few minutes.

  6. Place the cutlets in the center of a dish and arrange the herbs around them.

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.

  1. Meat + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together7,587 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Butter + parsleytop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together28,543 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  3. Meat + parsleytop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together3,040 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, butter):

  1. Thymebetter flavor fit
  2. Parsleythe original
  3. Nutmegabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

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