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Mutton or Lamb Chops

A simple dish of mutton or lamb chops boiled and served with optional mashed potatoes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,305 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Mutton or Lamb Chops

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the chops

  1. Clean the ends of the bones for 1–2 inches.

  2. Remove most of the fat from the chops.

  3. Dip the chops in melted butter.

Cook and serve

  1. Boil over a clear fire, turning often, for about 8 minutes until done.

  2. Remove to a hot platter.

  3. Add a bit of dressing of salt, pepper, and butter on each chop.

  4. Set in the oven for a moment and then serve.

  5. Optionally, serve the chops on a mound of mashed potatoes.

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

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

  2. Butter + potatotop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,456 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

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

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

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

Lamb chops
Provide the main meat, which is cooked quickly over high heat until done.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture to the chops and helps them brown.
Black pepper
Adds sharp, aromatic seasoning to the finished chops.

The step that matters

Boil over a clear fire, turning often, for about 8 minutes until done.. Turning often spreads heat evenly so the chops cook through without the outside burning. Cooking to doneness rather than by time alone matters because thickness varies, and lamb is best when cooked just through.

Swap the potato

The recipe marks potato as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mutton, butter, pepper):

  1. Potatothe original
  2. Capsicumfits about as well
  3. Carrotfits about as well
  4. Onionfits about as well

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