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Mutton Cutlets and Mashed Potatoes

Broiled mutton cutlets served with mashed potatoes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Mutton Cutlets and Mashed Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the cutlets

  1. Broil the mutton cutlets for 7 to 8 minutes.

  2. Alternatively, prepare them with tomato puree as directed in another recipe.

Make the mashed potatoes

  1. Boil the potatoes until tender, then drain.

  2. Beat the potatoes to a smooth paste with butter, milk, salt, and pepper.

Serve

  1. Place the mashed potatoes in the center of a dish and arrange the cutlets meat-side down around the 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. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Milk + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

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

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

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

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

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Mutton cutlets
Provide the main meat, which browns and firms under the broiler.
Mealy potatoes
Break down when boiled and beaten, giving the mash a light, smooth body.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, softening the mashed potatoes' texture and flavour.
Milk
Adds moisture so the beaten potatoes become smooth and spreadable.

The step that matters

Beating the potatoes to a smooth paste. Overworking boiled potatoes releases starch and can make the mash gluey, while under-beating leaves lumps. Drain them well first so excess water does not thin the mash.

“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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