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Mutton Chops

Breaded mutton chops served with mashed potatoes, macaroni, celery, thick white sauce, grated cheese, and optional cauliflower, finished with brown gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 16,012 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Mutton Chops

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the chops

  1. Divide the mutton into chops and trim off all the fat.

  2. Chop the bones to the same length and scrape them clean.

  3. Dust the chops with flour, dip in beaten egg, and coat with seasoned breadcrumbs.

  4. Let the chops stand for 20 minutes.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry the chops until golden brown.

  2. Serve the chops on a bed of mashed potatoes.

  3. Prepare macaroni and celery until tender, then cut into small pieces.

  4. Mix the macaroni and celery with thick white sauce and grated cheese.

  5. Pour brown gravy around the dish.

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 + celerytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Potato + celerytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Pepper + nutmegtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together13,015 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Nutmeg + celerytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,331 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Nutmeg + potatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,052 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

What each ingredient does

Mutton
Forms the main body of the dish and provides rich, savoury meat flavour.
Beaten egg
Acts as a binder so the breadcrumb coating adheres to the chops.
Fine dry breadcrumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating when fried.
Thick white sauce
Adds creamy moisture and body to the macaroni and celery mixture.
Grated cheese
Adds savoury flavour and browning to the macaroni mixture.

The step that matters

Fry the chops until golden brown. The breadcrumb coating needs enough oil and steady heat to brown and crisp without burning, while the meat cooks through. Letting the coated chops rest first helps the coating set so it does not fall off in the pan.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mutton, flour, egg, pepper, nutmeg, celery, sauce):

  1. Spinachfits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Carrotfits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, flour, egg, pepper, nutmeg, celery, sauce. 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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