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Mutton Chops Breaded

Breaded mutton chops fried in suet, seasoned with salt and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Mutton and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,488 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Mutton Chops Breaded

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the chops

  1. Wipe the mutton chops with a damp cloth.

  2. Pound the chops lightly with a wooden masher.

  3. Remove any fat or sinew with a sharp knife.

Bread the chops

  1. Beat the egg until frothy in a bowl.

  2. Place the bread crumbs on one plate and the flour on another.

  3. Roll each chop in flour, then dip in egg, and coat with bread crumbs.

  4. Sprinkle the chops with salt and pepper.

Fry and serve

  1. Heat rendered suet in a pan until very hot.

  2. Fry the chops until brown, then remove with a skimming ladle.

  3. Serve on a hot platter.

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 + breadtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,488 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  3. Egg + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

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

  5. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

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

Egg and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 106,462 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Mutton chops
Provide the meat, which is the main body of the dish and browns during frying.
Egg
Binds the flour to the bread crumbs so the coating stays on the chop.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden outer crust when fried.
Flour
Dry first layer that helps the egg grip and the crumbs adhere.

The step that matters

Fry the chops until brown in very hot suet. If the suet is not hot enough, the coating absorbs fat and turns greasy instead of crisping. Frying at high heat sets the crumb crust quickly and browns the surface, so the meat stays less oily.

“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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