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Mutton Cutlets

Mutton cutlets are seasoned, breaded, and fried or broiled, served with mashed potatoes, tomato sauce, and vegetables.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and tomato 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 Cutlets

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Trim the mutton cutlets well, scraping the bones.

  2. Roll the cutlets in melted butter or oil, then season with salt and pepper.

Cook

  1. Broil the cutlets until cooked.

  2. Roll the cutlets in egg and bread crumbs and fry until golden.

Serve

  1. If broiled, serve the cutlets around a bed of mashed potatoes or with tomato sauce.

  2. Arrange vegetables like peas or string beans in the center of the dish with the cutlets in a circle around them.

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 + tomatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,798 recipes

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

  2. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

  5. Bread + tomatotop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,013 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Mutton cutlets
Form the main body of the dish and carry the savory meaty flavor.
Egg
Binds the bread crumb coating so it adheres to the cutlets during frying.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating when fried.
Melted butter or oil
Coats the cutlets so seasoning adheres and the surface can brown.

The step that matters

Egg and bread crumb coating before frying. If the cutlets are not dry and evenly coated with egg, the bread crumbs will fall off or steam instead of browning, leaving an uneven, greasy crust.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Asparagusfits about as well
  3. Potatothe original
  4. Shallotfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, butter, pepper, egg, bread, 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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