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Fried Mutton Chops

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and cucumber match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,050 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Fried Mutton Chops

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Trim the mutton chops and season with pepper and coarse sea salt.

  2. Fry the chops in their own fat or pork fat, turning them often until browned.

  3. In a separate bowl, mix flour with a little water to make a batter.

  4. Pour the batter over the fried chops and serve hot.

  5. For the cucumbers, slice them and place in a deep dish, sprinkling with salt and drizzling with vinegar.

  6. Fry the chops until nicely browned, then place them in a stewpan.

  7. Drain the cucumbers and layer them over the chops, adding chopped onions, pepper, and salt.

  8. Cover with weak broth and stew, skimming occasionally.

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. Onion + cucumbertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,050 recipes

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

  2. Cucumber + vinegartop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,734 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyl acetate (fruit).

  3. Pork + oniontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,214 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + cucumbertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,991 recipes

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

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

Swap the cucumber

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mutton, pepper, pork, flour, onion, vinegar):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Turnipfits better
  4. Cucumberthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, pepper, pork, flour, onion, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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