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Mutton or Lamb Chop

Lamb or mutton chops served with a cream sauce and toasted bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Mutton and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,488 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Mutton or Lamb Chop

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the chops

  1. Trim all the fat from the mutton or lamb chops.

  2. Cook the chops like beefsteak, adjusting thickness if needed.

Make the cream sauce

  1. In a saucepan, bring the cream to a boil and season with salt.

  2. Toast the bread until golden brown.

  3. Dip the toasted bread in the cream and place on a plate.

  4. Pour the remaining cream over the bread and serve immediately.

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

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

  2. Mutton + creamtop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together550 recipes

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

  3. Cream + breadtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,789 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Lamb chops
Provide the main protein, which browns on cooking and becomes tender and juicy.
Cream
Adds richness and a smooth, silky texture to the sauce that coats the bread.
Bread
Soaks up the warm cream, giving a soft base that holds the sauce.

The step that matters

Bring the cream to a boil. Cream that boils too hard or too long can separate or thicken unevenly, so heat it just until it reaches a boil and season it before serving.

“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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