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Mutton or Lamb Chops

A simple roasted mutton or lamb chop served with optional garnish of tomato and peas.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 17,923 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Mutton or Lamb Chops

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare and cook

  1. Trim the mutton or lamb chops nicely.

  2. Broil the chops over a clear fire until cooked.

  3. Season the chops with butter, pepper, and coarse sea salt.

Plate and serve

  1. Serve the chops slightly lapping one over the other in an oval shape with the bones standing obliquely.

  2. For a beautiful presentation, add a frill of white paper around the end of the bone.

  3. If desired, place nicely-dressed tomato in the center of the dish.

  4. Serve with green peas if using lamb chops.

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

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

  2. Tomato + peastop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,058 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + peastop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,331 recipes

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

  4. Mutton + peastop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together598 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Mutton + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,442 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Mutton or lamb chops
Provides the main meat, which is cooked by direct heat and becomes tender and browned.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture to the cooked chops.

Swap the tomato

The recipe marks tomato as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mutton, butter, pepper, peas):

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Potatofits about as well
  3. Leekfits about as well
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, butter, pepper, peas. 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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