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Veal Cutlets, a LA Fried Oysters

Veal cutlets coated in beaten egg and cracker crumbs, fried until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 118,967 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Veal Cutlets, a LA Fried Oysters

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the veal into small pieces, about 3-4 inches square.

  2. Dry the pieces with a towel.

  3. Season the pieces with salt.

  4. Prepare two dishes: one with the beaten egg and another with the fine cracker crumbs.

Bread and fry

  1. Dip each piece of veal in the beaten egg.

  2. Coat each piece with the fine cracker crumbs.

  3. Heat enough lard or butter in a skillet to nearly cover the cutlets.

  4. Fry the cutlets until golden brown.

  5. Add a little boiling water to the skillet after the meat is done to make gravy.

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Veal + buttertop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,381 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Veal + eggtop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,845 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Veal cutlets
The main protein, which becomes tender and juicy when cooked briefly in fat.
Beaten egg
Binds the cracker crumbs to the veal so the coating stays on during frying.
Fine cracker crumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating that browns in the hot fat.
Lard or butter
Conducts heat for frying and adds richness and browning to the crust.

The step that matters

Fry the cutlets until golden brown. Frying in enough hot fat browns the crumb coating quickly, sealing in juices. If the fat is too cool, the crumbs absorb grease and the coating turns soggy.

“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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