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Mutton Chop

A grilled mutton chop served with tomato sauce and a hot mealy potato.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and potato match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,798 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Mutton Chop

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare and cook

  1. Cut the mutton chop to a suitable thickness.

  2. Cook the chop over a bright coal fire for 8 to 10 minutes.

  3. Check that the fat is transparent and the lean feels hard to know when it's done.

  4. Avoid piercing the chop with a fork while cooking.

Serve

  1. Serve the chop on a very hot plate with a hot mealy potato.

  2. Serve 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. Tomato + potatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,798 recipes

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

  2. Tomato + saucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,469 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Mutton + potatotop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together293 recipes

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

  4. Mutton + tomatotop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together452 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-nonanal (fatty, waxy).

  5. Sauce + potatotop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,073 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Mutton chop
Provides the main meat; its fat renders and flavours the chop as it cooks.
Mealy potato
Its floury starch gives a soft, fluffy texture beside the chop.
Tomato sauce
Adds acidity and sweetness that cut through the richness of the meat.

The step that matters

Avoid piercing the chop with a fork while cooking. Piercing the meat lets its juices run out, which dries the chop. Judging doneness by the fat turning clear and the lean feeling firm avoids this.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mutton, tomato, sauce):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Carrotfits about as well
  3. Cucumberfits about as well
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, tomato, 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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