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Veal Chops

Veal chops coated in breadcrumbs, wrapped in buttered paper, broiled, served with seasoned white sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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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 ↓

Veal Chops

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the chops

  1. Cut veal chops from the best end of a rack, ensuring one bone in each chop.

  2. Prepare bread crumbs and set aside.

Coat and wrap

  1. Dip the chops in beaten egg yolks.

  2. Coat the chops with bread crumbs.

  3. Grease pieces of writing paper with butter.

  4. Wrap the paper around the chops.

Broil and serve

  1. Broil the wrapped chops on a hot skillet, avoiding burning the paper.

  2. Serve with a highly seasoned white sauce.

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

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

  2. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  3. Butter + saucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15,338 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Veal + breadtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,056 recipes

    Shared aroma: cis-3-hexenol (green, grassy).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

Butter and sauce barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 15,338 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 chops
Provide the tender meat that is the main component of the dish.
Egg yolks
Bind the bread crumbs to the chops so the coating adheres during cooking.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating around the chops.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the paper brown and flavor the chops.

The step that matters

Broil the wrapped chops on a hot skillet, avoiding burning the paper. The paper protects the coating and meat from scorching, but if it chars or burns the parcel can split and the chops dry out. Keeping the heat controlled lets the chops cook through gently while the coating 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.

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