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Mutton Chops

Grilled mutton chops coated in bread crumbs, served with mashed potatoes or tomato sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 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 Chops

Oven, in the book's wordsA brisk oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut nice chops from a well-hung loin or neck of mutton.

  2. Beat the chops with a wooden mallet.

  3. Dip the chops in boiling fat or lard, then in bread crumbs mixed with salt and pepper.

Cook and serve

  1. Preheat a gridiron over wood coals.

  2. Broil the chops until nicely browned over a quick fire, turning occasionally.

  3. Serve with mashed potatoes or tomato 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. Pepper + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

  2. Mutton + breadtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,488 recipes

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

  3. Bread + potatotop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together434 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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

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

  5. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 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 chops
Provide the meat that is browned and cooked over the fire.
Boiling fat or lard
Adds richness and helps the crumb coating brown and crisp.
Bread crumbs
Form a coating that browns and crisps on the outside of the chops.

The step that matters

Broil the chops until nicely browned over a quick fire, turning occasionally.. Browning depends on a hot, fast fire and regular turning; too slow a heat dries the meat before the crumb coating crisps, and uneven turning can scorch one side.

Swap the potato

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, bread, 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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