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 ↓
Klopps — Collops
Ingredients
Directions
Form the meat into round, flat shapes.
Dip each shape in beaten egg, then coat with bread crumbs.
Fry in butter until golden brown.
Serve with your choice of sauce or gravy and a vegetable.
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.
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Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together27,232 recipes
Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
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Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together22,662 recipes
Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
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Meat + breadtop 14% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together2,924 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
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Bread + chivetop 16% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together265 recipes
Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
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Butter + chivetop 16% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together2,097 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
- Lean meat
- Forms the main body of the dish, cooked to tender, savoury slices.
- Egg
- Binds the bread crumb coating so it adheres to the meat during frying.
- Bread crumbs
- Form a crisp outer coating that browns when fried.
- Butter
- Fries the coated meat, adding fat for browning and rich flavour.
The step that matters
Fry in butter until golden brown. Butter browns quickly and can burn before the meat is cooked through. Medium heat lets the crumb colour evenly while the centre cooks.
Swap the chive
The recipe marks chive as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, egg, bread, butter):
- Asparagusfits better
- Shallotfits better
- Leekfits about as well
- Chivethe original
Fit is the average pairing score against meat, egg, bread, butter. 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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