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Soyer’s New Mutton Chop

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Mutton and shallot work together. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 407 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Soyer’s New Mutton Chop

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Trim the saddle of mutton.

  2. Cut it into chops ½ inch thick using a saw.

  3. Mince the shallot and warm it in a little good gravy.

  4. Pour the warm gravy with shallot over the broiled chop.

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 + shallottop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together407 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

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