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Mutton or Lamb Chops and Collops with Cucumbers

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Cucumber and vinegar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,734 recipes. Both carry 2-methylbutyl acetate, which smells fruit. The science ↓

Mutton or Lamb Chops and Collops with Cucumbers

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Brown the thin slices of mutton or lamb in a frying pan with butter.

  2. Prepare the cucumbers by peeling, slicing, and sprinkling with salt and pepper; pour vinegar over them and let sit for an hour.

  3. Stew the collops and cucumbers in a little broth to make gravy; season with salt, pepper, and catsup.

  4. Skim the gravy when the collops and cucumbers are done.

  5. Serve in a large 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. Cucumber + vinegartop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,734 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyl acetate (fruit).

  2. Cucumber + peppertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,991 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + vinegartop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

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

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

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

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

Swap the cucumber

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mutton, butter, pepper, vinegar):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Onionfits better
  3. Shallotfits about as well
  4. Cucumberthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, butter, pepper, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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