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Stewed Mutton Chops

A simple stew of mutton chops simmered with onion, peppercorns, and salt, served with turnips and caper sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Mutton and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,531 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Stewed Mutton Chops

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Place the mutton chops in a stewpan and cover them with water.

  2. Add the quartered onion, black peppercorns, and salt.

Cook and serve

  1. Cover the pan tightly and cook over a very low heat for 30 minutes.

  2. Transfer the chops to a serving dish and pour the cooking liquid over them.

  3. Serve with turnips and caper sauce.

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 + oniontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,531 recipes

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

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 that becomes tender during slow, gentle stewing.
Onion
Adds aromatic sweetness and flavour to the cooking liquid.

The step that matters

Cook over a very low heat with the pan covered. Gentle, low heat in a tightly covered pan keeps the liquid from boiling hard, so the connective tissue in the mutton softens slowly without the meat toughening or drying out.

“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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