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Veal Cutlets

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Thyme and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,057 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Veal Cutlets

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Place the veal on a cutting board.

  2. Saw off the end of the rib bone, leaving a 3-inch cutlet bone.

  3. Saw off the chine bone at the back of the cutlets.

  4. Joint each cutlet with a chopper.

  5. Cut each cutlet close to the bone for extra pieces.

  6. Beat each cutlet to about ½ inch thick.

  7. Trim the cutlet, leaving ½ inch of rib bone bare.

  8. Shape the cutlets nicely.

  9. Chop the savory thyme finely until it fills a saltspoon.

  10. Wash and dry the parsley, then chop it finely.

  11. Melt the butter in the oven.

  12. Add lemon juice, chopped thyme, and parsley to the melted butter.

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. Thyme + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

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

  3. Thyme + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,973 recipes

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

  4. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  5. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

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

Swap the thyme

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

  1. Marjoramfits about as well
  2. Thymethe original
  3. Sagefits about as well
  4. Tarragonfits about as well

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

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