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Cutlets, Breaded, with Bacon

Breaded pork or veal cutlets served with fried bacon and fried bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and sage match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,388 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Cutlets, Breaded, with Bacon

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the cutlets

  1. Brush the chops or cutlets with warm butter.

  2. Roll them in seasoned bread-crumbs, pressing the crumbs on firmly.

Cook and serve

  1. Grill or broil the cutlets until cooked through.

  2. Cut the bacon into two-inch lengths and fry them.

  3. Serve the bacon on bits of fried bread around the cutlets.

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 + sagetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,388 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  3. Bread + sagetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,778 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

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

  5. Butter + sagetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,312 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Chops or cutlets
Form the main body of the dish, cooked through by grilling or broiling.
Bread-crumbs
Form a crisp coating that browns during cooking and holds to the meat.
Bacon
Adds salty, savoury fat and flavour alongside the cutlets.
Warm butter
Carries the seasoned crumbs to the surface and promotes browning.

The step that matters

Pressing the crumbs on firmly. If the crumbs are not pressed firmly onto the buttered surface, they can fall off during grilling or broiling, leaving bare patches and an uneven coating.

Swap the sage

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

  1. Parsleyfits about as well
  2. Sagethe original
  3. Thymefits about as well
  4. Nutmegfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, bread, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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