Skip to main content
Main

Cutlets of Sturgeon Grilles

Thin slices of sturgeon coated in egg, breadcrumbs, and butter, then grilled until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Cutlets of Sturgeon Grilles

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the cutlets

  1. Beat the egg with pepper and salt in a bowl.

  2. Toss the sturgeon slices in the egg mixture.

  3. Coat the slices in bread crumbs.

  4. Dip the slices in melted butter and coat with bread crumbs again.

Grill

  1. Grill over a wood fire until golden brown, similar to veal 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.

Explore the science

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  3. Sturgeon + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together237 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  4. Pepper + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Sturgeon
Forms the main body of the cutlet, cooked until it turns firm and flaky.
Egg
Binds the bread crumbs to the fish so the coating adheres during cooking.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating that browns over the fire.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, helping the second crumb coating brown evenly.

The step that matters

Grill over a wood fire until golden brown. Sturgeon is lean and the crumb coating can burn before the fish cooks through. Moderate heat and watching for golden color let the interior cook gently while the crust browns.

“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.

You might also like

Brown BreadBrown Bread461 recipesWhite BreadWhite Bread80 recipesBread OmeletteBread Omelette60 recipesOatmeal BreadOatmeal Bread51 recipes