Lu Varley recipe — Wiener Schnitzel

For this weeks recipe I have chosen Weiner Schnitzel another Retro dish, it has been controversial according to a legend that the recipe was brought from Italy to Vienna in 1857 by Field Marshal Radetzky who spent much of his life in Milan. Although in the 19th century many historians say this is a myth, however in Northern Italy in 1134 there was a banquet for the Cannon of Milan Saint Ambrogio Cathedral. He was served a dish called Cotoletta alla Milanese that was similar to the Austrian schnitzel but it was a veal chop pounded and breaded and the Austrians version is boneless. The most convincing theories say that the schnitzel was a bourgeois invention of the 18th century Vienna. Schnitzel is often mistaken for sausage in the modern American society, what many Americans do not realize about schnitzel is that it is part of the melting pot of America, for example German immigrants to Texas in the 18 hundreds combined these schnitzel recipes to make chicken fried steak popular in the south west of U. S. A. Even Israel has its own version of schnitzel, areas with large German populations like Argentina also carry schnitzel, even though schnitzel is also served as a platter it can also be served in sandwiches. Originally veal calves were kept in wooden crates and fed milk which thank goodness is banned, when i worked at Ramsons we always used rose organic veal which was supreme it is compassionately and sensationally reared and bred to the highest standards of animal welfare. I chose to use rose veal but pork fillet or chicken breast beaten thin in the same way is also an acceptable alternative.