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Veal Cutlets

Veal cutlets are breaded veal pieces fried and simmered in gravy with Worcestershire sauce and parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Veal Cutlets

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the veal

  1. Wipe the veal, remove bone and skin, and cut into serving pieces.

  2. Skewer small pieces together with toothpicks.

  3. Cover bones and skin with cold water, heat slowly, and cook below boiling to make stock for gravy.

  4. Season the veal pieces with salt and pepper.

  5. Roll the veal in flour or dip in egg and then in bread crumbs.

Brown and braise

  1. Brown the cutlets in hot dripping in a frying pan, or in deep fat if crumbed.

  2. Place the browned cutlets in a deep saucepan or casserole and add the prepared gravy.

  3. Cook below boiling point for 1 hour, or until tender.

  4. Add Worcestershire sauce and parsley before serving.

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 + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  2. Flour + parsleytop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together16,675 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

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

  4. Bread + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,588 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Flour + eggtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 106,462 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Veal
Forms the main body of the dish and becomes tender through slow cooking below boiling.
Flour
Dry coating that helps the cutlets brown and gives the surface a light crust.
Egg
Binding layer that helps the bread crumbs stick to the veal.
Bread crumbs
Forms a crisp, golden outer coating when fried.
Stock
Liquid base for the gravy that keeps the veal moist during cooking.
Worcestershire sauce
Adds savoury, tangy flavour to the finished gravy.

The step that matters

Cook below boiling point. A gentle simmer lets the connective tissue in the veal soften slowly. Boiling toughens the meat and can break up the coating and gravy.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, pepper, flour, egg, bread, sauce):

  1. Capersfits about as well
  2. Parsleythe original
  3. Nutmegfits about as well
  4. Turmericfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, pepper, flour, egg, bread, sauce. 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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