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Mutton Chops

Saddle of mutton chops coated in egg yolk and bread crumbs, then broiled or fried and served with gravy.

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 Chops

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the saddle of mutton into individual chops, separating each bone.

  2. Trim off the thin fat from the chops.

  3. Rub the chops with the yolk of the egg and coat with bread crumbs.

Cook and serve

  1. Broil or fry the chops until cooked through.

  2. Serve with gravy.

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.

Explore the science

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. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  3. Mutton + eggtop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,648 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Saddle of mutton
Forms the main body of the dish, providing the meat that cooks through to be eaten.
Yolk of 1 egg
Acts as a binder so the bread crumbs adhere to the chops.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp coating that browns during broiling or frying.

The step that matters

Broil or fry the chops until cooked through. Mutton chops must reach a fully cooked interior without the breadcrumb coating burning. Medium heat lets the heat penetrate the meat while the egg-bound crumbs brown evenly.

“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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