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Mutton Chops, Jumbled

Mutton chops served with a sauce of spices, herbs, shallots, cucumbers, and lemon juice or vinegar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Shallot and cucumber match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 264 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Mutton Chops, Jumbled

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Heat a frying pan over low heat and add the mutton chops and butter.

  2. Cook the chops until done, then remove them from the pan.

  3. In the remaining grease, stir in the spices, fine herbs, shallots, and thinly sliced cucumbers, then mix well.

  4. Serve the sauce over the chops with a squeeze of lemon juice or a little vinegar.

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. Shallot + cucumbertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together264 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Shallot + lemontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,523 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Cucumber + lemontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,067 recipes

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

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

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

  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
Main protein that is cooked in the butter and then served with the sauce.
Butter
Fat that cooks the chops and provides richness and browning in the pan.
Spices
Add aroma and warmth to the sauce made in the pan drippings.
Shallots
Add a mild, sweet onion flavour to the sauce.
Cucumbers
Add cool, crisp texture and freshness to the sauce.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mutton, butter, shallot, cucumber):

  1. Avocadofits about as well
  2. Pumpkinfits about as well
  3. Lemonthe original
  4. Cherryfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, butter, shallot, cucumber. 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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