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Mutton Chop with Tomatoes

Mutton chops coated in egg and breadcrumbs, fried and served around baked tomatoes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 17,923 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Mutton Chop with Tomatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the chops

  1. Pound the mutton chops lightly with a cleaver to smooth them.

  2. Roll the chops in beaten egg and then in breadcrumbs.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry the chops in a pan until they are light brown.

  2. Place the baked tomatoes in the center of a serving dish.

  3. Arrange the fried chops around the tomatoes, with the bones facing upwards.

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. Tomato + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

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

  2. Mutton + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,442 recipes

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

  3. Mutton + tomatotop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together452 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-nonanal (fatty, waxy).

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

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

  5. Egg + peppertop 33% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together50,580 recipes

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

Egg and pepper barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 50,580 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Mutton chops
Meat is the main component, cooked through by frying after being pounded smooth.
Egg
Binds the breadcrumbs to the chops so the coating adheres during frying.
Breadcrumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating that browns when the chops are fried.
Baked tomatoes
Provide moisture and acidity that contrast with the rich, fried meat.

The step that matters

Frying the breaded chops. Breading must be pressed on firmly and the pan kept at a steady heat. If the coating is loose or the heat is too high, it can burn or fall off before the meat cooks through.

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mutton, egg, pepper):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, egg, pepper. 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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