Name: Mutton Cutlets
Ingredients: Mutton cutlets; Eggs; Breadcrumbs; Clarified butter; Vegetables (optional, e.g., peas, French beans, cauliflower, or a puree of turnips, spinach, potato, haricots)

Why it works: Mutton and peas work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 598 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Mutton Cutlets

Ingredients

Mutton cutlets
Eggs
Breadcrumbs
Clarified butter
Vegetables (optional, e.g., peas, French beans, cauliflower, or a puree of turnips, spinach, potato, haricots)

Directions

Coat the mutton cutlets in beaten eggs, then in breadcrumbs.
Dip the cutlets in clarified butter and repeat the breadcrumb coating.
Fry the cutlets until they are a nice color.
Serve with vegetables in the center or plain, and sauce in a sauce tureen.

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.

Explore the science

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.

Mutton + peastop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together598 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Mutton + buttertop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together3,781 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Butter + peastop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,887 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together118,967 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Egg + peastop 22% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,065 recipes

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