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Egg Cutlets

Egg Cutlets are fried slices of hard‑boiled eggs coated in beaten egg and breadcrumbs, served with hot gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Egg Cutlets

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the boiled eggs into thick slices with a sharp knife.

  2. Dip each slice into the beaten egg, then roll in the breadcrumbs seasoned with pepper, salt, and parsley.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry the slices in butter or dripping until light brown, turning them as they cook.

  2. Do not let them sit in the frying pan after cooking; drain excess fat.

  3. Pour boiling hot gravy over the eggs and serve immediately.

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. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Parsley + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together28,563 recipes

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

  3. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Egg + parsleytop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,765 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Hard-boiled eggs
Form the main body of the cutlets, providing the firm, sliceable filling.
Raw egg
Binds the breadcrumb coating so it adheres to the egg slices during frying.
Breadcrumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating that browns when fried.
Butter or dripping
Conducts heat for frying and adds richness and browning to the coating.

The step that matters

Drain after frying. Leaving the cutlets to sit in the pan lets residual fat and heat soften the crisp breadcrumb coating, and excess fat left on the surface makes them greasy.

“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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