Escalope

<h2 id="common-sizes">Common sizes</h2>
<p>The typical sizes of an escalope used in the food industry range from 110 to 225 g (4–8 oz).
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<h2 id="paillard--or-scallop">Paillard  or scallop</h2>
<p><i>Paillard</i> is an older <a href="/facts/Cuisine_of_France/gHvq6Erk">French</a> culinary term referring to a quick-cooking, thinly sliced or pounded piece of meat.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a>  In France, it has been largely replaced by the word <i>escalope</i>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a>
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<h2 id="origin">Origin</h2>
<p>The term <i>escalope</i> originated in France.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> It first appeared in cookery terminology late in the 17th century as a dialectal expression in the northeast of rural France,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> originally meaning a shelled nut or mollusk: <i>veau à l'escalope</i> (<a href="/facts/Veal/mwCTI1Pg">veal</a> cooked in the style of an escalope).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a> In those days, an <i>escalope</i> was undoubtedly always veal.
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<h2 id="other-uses">Other uses</h2>
<p>The term "escalope" is also applied to meat-free products such as <a href="/facts/Quorn/6G8jqp8N">Quorn</a> (mycoprotein) escalopes, which have a cheese and broccoli sauce encased in bread crumbs. In Australia the term escalope is also applied to potatoes that have been thinly sliced. Potatoes that are thinly sliced, battered, then fried are often called "scallops".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a>
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
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<li>Food portal</li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Chicken_Kiev/IY5EzWeC">Chicken Kiev</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Cotoletta/1HBnFYg5">Cotoletta</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Cutlet/Gu04wlT1">Cutlet</a>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Chicken_katsu/juqN4mWJ">Chicken katsu</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Tonkatsu/geKlPVEF">Tonkatsu</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Milanesa/K3uAUKbB">Milanesa</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Scaloppine/aylcAL7x">Scaloppine</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Schnitzel/h0G5p2K2">Schnitzel</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Wiener_schnitzel/7r6X56e3">Wiener schnitzel</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li> The dictionary definition of escalope at Wiktionary</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>"Escalope - Kitchen Dictionary - Food.com". Recipezaar.com. 2014-03-24. Archived from the original on 2020-05-29. Retrieved 2014-08-27. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200529000204/https://www.food.com/about/escalope-842" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20200529000204/https://www.food.com/about/escalope-842</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>"Escalope". Probertencyclopaedia.com. Archived from the original on 2012-04-02. Retrieved 2014-08-27. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120402214141/http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/cgi-bin/res.pl?keyword=Escalope&=0" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20120402214141/http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/cgi-bin/res.pl?keyword=Escalope&=0</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>"Escalope - Kitchen Dictionary - Food.com". Recipezaar.com. 2014-03-24. Archived from the original on 2020-05-29. Retrieved 2014-08-27. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200529000204/https://www.food.com/about/escalope-842" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20200529000204/https://www.food.com/about/escalope-842</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>Charles G. Sinclair (1998). International Dictionary of Food and Cooking. Chicago, Illinois, USA: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. p. 190. ISBN 1-57958-057-2. Retrieved 27 August 2012. <a href="1-57958-057-2" target="_blank">1-57958-057-2</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>"Escalope - definition". oxforddictionaries.com. Archived from the original on July 9, 2012. Retrieved 2015-11-26. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120709060418/http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/escalope" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20120709060418/http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/escalope</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:6"><p>Zeldes, Leah A. (2010-09-22). "Eat this! Paillard, pounded meat, quick and versatile". Dining Chicago. Chicago's Restaurant & Entertainment Guide, Inc. Archived from the original on 2012-03-21. Retrieved 2010-11-17. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120321005654/http://www.diningchicago.com/blog/2010/09/22/eat-this-paillard-pounded-meat-quick-and-versatile/" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20120321005654/http://www.diningchicago.com/blog/2010/09/22/eat-this-paillard-pounded-meat-quick-and-versatile/</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:7"><p>Zeldes, Leah A. (2010-09-22). "Eat this! Paillard, pounded meat, quick and versatile". Dining Chicago. Chicago's Restaurant & Entertainment Guide, Inc. Archived from the original on 2012-03-21. Retrieved 2010-11-17. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120321005654/http://www.diningchicago.com/blog/2010/09/22/eat-this-paillard-pounded-meat-quick-and-versatile/" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20120321005654/http://www.diningchicago.com/blog/2010/09/22/eat-this-paillard-pounded-meat-quick-and-versatile/</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:8"><p>"Escalope - Kitchen Dictionary - Food.com". Recipezaar.com. 2014-03-24. Archived from the original on 2020-05-29. Retrieved 2014-08-27. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200529000204/https://www.food.com/about/escalope-842" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20200529000204/https://www.food.com/about/escalope-842</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:9"><p>"escalope". Everything2.com. 2006-11-02. Retrieved 2014-08-27. <a href="http://www.everything2.org/title/escalope" target="_blank">http://www.everything2.org/title/escalope</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:10"><p>"escalope". Everything2.com. 2006-11-02. Retrieved 2014-08-27. <a href="http://www.everything2.org/title/escalope" target="_blank">http://www.everything2.org/title/escalope</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:11"><p>Cornish, Richard (2015-03-24). "Potato cakes v potato scallops: which state is correct?". Good Food. Retrieved 2021-04-10. <a href="https://www.goodfood.com.au/recipes/potato-cakes-v-potato-scallops-which-state-is-correct-20150323-13zysq" target="_blank">https://www.goodfood.com.au/recipes/potato-cakes-v-potato-scallops-which-state-is-correct-20150323-13zysq</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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