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Scotch Collops

Veal collops fried in butter and served with a cream gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Scotch Collops

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the veal

  1. Cut veal into thin, round pieces about 3 inches wide.

  2. Beat the veal with a rolling pin and sprinkle with nutmeg.

  3. Dip the pieces into the egg yolk.

Fry and make the sauce

  1. Fry the pieces in butter until golden brown.

  2. Remove excess butter from the pan.

  3. Prepare the sauce by mixing gravy, flour, cream, and salt in a pan.

  4. Stir the sauce until thickened, but do not boil.

Serve

  1. Serve the sauce over the collops.

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. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Flour + nutmegtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,623 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Cream + nutmegtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,920 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  5. Egg + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Veal
Forms the main body of the dish, cooked tender when beaten thin and fried quickly.
Egg yolk
Coats the veal pieces, helping the surface brown and bind the nutmeg to the meat.
Butter
Fries the veal, giving it a golden brown surface and rich flavour.
Flour
Thickens the gravy sauce so it coats the collops.
Cream
Adds richness and smoothness to the sauce.

The step that matters

Stir the sauce until thickened, but do not boil. Flour thickens liquid as its starch swells with heat, but boiling can break down the thickened sauce and cause the cream to separate, leaving it thin or grainy.

“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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