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Beoiled Mutton Chops

Broiled mutton chops seasoned with pepper and salt, cooked on a grill and served with optional tomato sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Mutton and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,442 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Beoiled Mutton Chops

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the chops from a tenderloin of mutton, removing excess fat and trimming them into a nice shape.

  2. Slightly beat and level the chops.

Grill

  1. Preheat a grill over a bright, clear fire.

  2. Rub the grill bars with a little fat.

  3. Place the chops on the grill.

  4. Turn the chops frequently.

  5. Cook for about 8 minutes until done.

  6. Season the chops with pepper and salt.

Serve

  1. Place the chops on a hot dish.

  2. Rub a small piece of butter on each chop.

  3. Serve immediately, optionally with tomato sauce.

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

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

  2. Mutton + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,781 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 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

Loin of mutton
Is the meat itself, so its tenderness and flavour define the dish.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture to the cooked chops as it melts over them.

The step that matters

Turn the chops frequently. Frequent turning over a hot fire cooks the chops evenly and helps keep the surface from charring before the centre is done.

“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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