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Mutton Chops with Mashed Potatoes

Mutton chops seasoned with pepper and coarse sea salt, broiled over coal, served with hot mashed potatoes, chopped eschalots, and scraped horseradish.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and horseradish work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 171 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Mutton Chops with Mashed Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mutton

  1. Bone the loin of mutton and cut it into thick steaks.

  2. Season the steaks with pepper and coarse sea salt.

Cook and serve

  1. Broil the steaks over a clear coal fire, being careful not to overcook them.

  2. Prepare hot mashed potatoes in a tin mold.

  3. Arrange the chops around the mashed potatoes and serve immediately.

  4. Serve chopped eschalots and scraped horseradish on separate plates.

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 + horseradishtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together171 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

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

  3. Pepper + horseradishtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,646 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

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

  5. Mutton + potatotop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together293 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

Loin of mutton
Forms the main meat; its fat and fibres become tender and juicy when broiled.
Mashed potatoes
Provides a soft, moist base that absorbs meat juices and balances the rich, charred meat.
Scraped horseradish
Adds sharp, pungent heat that cuts through the richness of the fatty mutton.

The step that matters

Broiling the steaks without overcooking. Thick steaks keep cooking from residual heat after they leave the fire. Overcooking tightens the muscle proteins and squeezes out moisture, leaving the meat dry and tough, so they should be pulled off while still slightly rosy inside.

Swap the horseradish

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

  1. Carrotfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Tomatofits better
  4. Horseradishthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, pepper, potato. 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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