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Mutton Chops with Lemon

A grilled mutton chop seasoned with pepper, sea salt, butter, and lemon slices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Mutton Chops with Lemon

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash the mutton chops and pat them dry.

  2. Grease the bars of your grill.

  3. Peel the lemons.

  4. Slice the lemons.

Cook and serve

  1. Broil the chops over hot coals.

  2. Place the chops on a dish.

  3. Season the chops with pepper and coarse sea salt.

  4. Baste the chops with butter.

  5. Place a lemon slice on each chop before serving.

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 + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,227 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

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

  5. Pepper + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 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
Form the main body of the dish, cooking into tender, juicy meat when broiled.
Butter
Adds moisture and richness, helping the chops stay juicy and brown during broiling.
Lemons
Add acidity and aroma that cut through the richness of the fatty mutton.

The step that matters

Broil the chops over hot coals. Meat cooked over very hot coals can char on the outside before the centre is cooked. Keeping the chops moving and watching the heat helps them brown evenly while staying juicy 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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