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Cutlets with Gravy

A dish of cutlets simmered in onion gravy with parsley, savory, and tomato ketchup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and summer savory match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 241 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Cutlets with Gravy

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the onion

  1. Peel and chop the onion.

  2. Brown the onion in a pan.

Simmer and finish the gravy

  1. Add boiling water, parsley, summer savory, salt, and pepper to the pan.

  2. Return the cutlets to the pan and let them simmer for 1 hour.

  3. Remove the cutlets from the pan.

  4. Stir the tomato ketchup into the gravy.

  5. If the gravy is thin, add browned flour before the ketchup.

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. Parsley + summer savorytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together241 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

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

  3. Summer savory + flourtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together263 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Summer savory + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together671 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  5. Pepper + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

What each ingredient does

Onion
Browned onion builds the savory, sweet base flavor of the gravy.
Browned flour
Thickens the gravy as it heats in the liquid, giving it body.
Tomato ketchup
Adds sweetness, acidity and a deeper color to the gravy.
Summer savory
Adds a herbal, peppery aroma to the gravy.

The step that matters

Thickening the gravy with browned flour. Flour thickens only when it is stirred into hot liquid and given time to cook, so whisking it in well prevents lumps and gives an even, smooth gravy.

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, parsley, summer savory, pepper, ketchup, flour):

  1. Turnipfits better
  2. Okrafits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, parsley, summer savory, pepper, ketchup, flour. 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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