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Mutton Chops Breaded, with Cheese

Breaded mutton chops coated with cheese and breadcrumbs, broiled and served with hot butter and catsup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread 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 Breaded, with Cheese

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Trim the loin chops and wipe them with a damp cloth.

  2. Dip the chops into melted butter.

  3. Roll the chops in a mixture of fine bread crumbs and grated cheese.

  4. Season with salt and pepper.

Cook and serve

  1. Broil the chops over a clear fire until cooked.

  2. Place the chops on a hot dish.

  3. Pour hot butter and hot catsup over each chop 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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Bread + cheesetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

  3. Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  4. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Cheese + peppertop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,861 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

What each ingredient does

Loin chops
The main meat, which the coating surrounds and which is cooked by broiling.
Melted butter
Adds fat and moisture, helping the crumb coating adhere and brown.
Fine bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating that protects the meat during broiling.
Grated cheese
Mixed into the crumbs, it adds savory flavor and helps the coating brown.

The step that matters

Broil the chops over a clear fire until cooked. Broiling needs a clear, steady heat so the coating browns without burning before the meat is cooked through. Thick chops can stay raw at the centre if heat is too weak or the chops are removed too early.

“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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