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Breaded Chops

Breaded mutton or lamb chops seasoned with salt and pepper, coated in egg and breadcrumbs, fried until cooked.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Mutton and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,488 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Breaded Chops

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Trim the chops and season with salt and pepper.

  2. Dip the chops in the beaten egg.

  3. Roll the chops in dry bread crumbs.

Fry and drain

  1. Fry in deep fat for 6 minutes for rare or 10 minutes for well done.

  2. Remove and drain on brown paper.

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. Mutton + breadtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,488 recipes

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

  2. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Pepper + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Mutton + eggtop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,648 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Lamb chops
Provide the tender meat that is the main part of the dish.
Beaten egg
Binds the bread crumbs to the chops so the coating stays on during frying.
Dry bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating that browns in the hot fat.

The step that matters

Frying time for doneness. Frying for 6 minutes gives rare meat and 10 minutes gives well-done meat. Since the crumb coating browns quickly, the timing decides how cooked the center gets, so check the chops for doneness at the chosen time.

“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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