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Mutton Chops, Beeaded

Breaded mutton chops seasoned with salt and pepper, fried in clarified butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Mutton Chops, Beeaded

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Flatten the mutton chops and trim them nicely.

  2. Season the chops with salt and pepper.

Bread and cook

  1. Dip each chop in the beaten egg, then roll in bread crumbs.

  2. Heat clarified butter in a skillet over medium heat.

  3. Cook the chops for 4 minutes until golden brown.

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.

  1. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Mutton + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,781 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 chops
Thick cut of meat that forms the body of the dish and cooks through in a short time.
Beaten egg
Binds the bread crumbs to the chop so the coating stays on during cooking.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp coating that browns in the hot butter.
Clarified butter
Fat that fries the coating and promotes even golden browning without burning.

The step that matters

Cook the chops for 4 minutes until golden brown. Clarified butter tolerates higher heat than whole butter, but the crumb coating can still scorch before the meat is cooked through if the heat is too high. Medium heat lets the coating brown evenly as the chop cooks inside.

“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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