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Cutlets with Spinach

Fried loin cutlets served with stewed spinach.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Spinach and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 24% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,583 recipes. Both carry trans-2-decenal, which smells waxy, orange. The science ↓

Cutlets with Spinach

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the steaks from the loin.

Cook

  1. Fry the steaks until cooked through.

  2. Stew the spinach until tender.

Serve

  1. Place the stewed spinach in a dish.

  2. Arrange the fried cutlets around the spinach.

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. Spinach + buttertop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,583 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

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

What each ingredient does

Loin steaks
Form the main protein of the cutlets, cooking to a firm, tender texture when fried through.
Spinach
Softens into a tender, moist bed through stewing, adding a mild, earthy base to the dish.
Butter
Carries heat for frying and adds fat, helping the cutlets brown and taste rich.

The step that matters

Fry the steaks until cooked through. Thin cutlets can dry out or stay underdone if heat is too high or timing is off. Cooking through without overcooking keeps the meat juicy and safe to eat.

“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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