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Mutton and Lamb Chops

Broiled mutton and lamb chops served with green peas, string beans, small vegetables, mashed potatoes or spinach, and paper frills.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Beans and spinach match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 365 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Mutton and Lamb Chops

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Trim the chops into English, French, or boned and rolled forms.

Broil and serve

  1. Broil the chops following the directions for steak.

  2. Serve green peas, string beans, or any small vegetable on the same dish, placing them in the center or around the chops.

  3. Press mashed potatoes or spinach into a circle and rest the chops against it, with the bones pointing up or slanting.

  4. Place paper frills on the ends of the bones to improve their appearance.

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. Beans + spinachtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together365 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  2. Potato + spinachtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together646 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  3. Beans + potatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together655 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  4. Peas + beanstop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together949 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  5. Peas + spinachtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together550 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

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

What each ingredient does

Mutton or lamb chops
Provide the main protein, which browns and firms under the broiler's direct heat.
Mashed potatoes
Form a base that holds the chops upright on the plate.
Spinach
Forms a base that holds the chops upright on the plate.

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mutton, beans, potato, spinach):

  1. Chickpeafits better
  2. Lentilsfits better
  3. Lima beansfits better
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, beans, potato, spinach. 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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