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Baked Mutton Chops and Potatoes

A baked dish of mutton chops served with sliced potatoes, seasoned with salt and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,305 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Baked Mutton Chops and Potatoes

Oven, in the book's wordsA very hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a very hot oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare

  1. Wash and peel the potatoes, then slice them into ¼‑inch thick rounds.

  2. Rinse the sliced potatoes in water to clean them thoroughly.

  3. Trim excess fat from the loin chops and shape them with a skewer.

Bake and serve

  1. Layer the potatoes in a baking dish, sprinkling salt and pepper between layers.

  2. Add enough cold water to the dish to prevent burning.

  3. Bake in a hot oven at 400 °F (200 °C) on the top shelf until browned.

  4. Once the potatoes are browned, place the chops on top, adding more salt, pepper, and water if needed.

  5. Move the dish to a cooler part of the oven at 350 °F (175 °C) and cook for about 45 minutes.

  6. Turn the chops to brown the other side when the top is crisp.

  7. If the potatoes dry out, add hot water gently at one corner of 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. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Potatoes
Form the base layer, absorbing fat and juices while browning on top.
Loin chops
Provide the main meat, browning on the surface while cooking gently in the oven.

The step that matters

Adding the chops after the potatoes browned. Placing the chops on top only after the potatoes have browned lets the potatoes develop color and crispness before the meat cooks, and moving to a cooler oven then keeps the meat from drying out or burning.

“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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