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Mutton Chop Wtth 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) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Mutton and tomato work together. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 452 recipes. Both carry 1-nonanal, which smells fatty, waxy. The science ↓

Mutton Chop Wtth Tomatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

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

Coat and fry

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

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

Serve

  1. Place baked tomatoes in the center of a serving dish and arrange the chops around them, 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.

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

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

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

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

  3. Egg + tomatotop 34% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,890 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

Mutton chops
Provide the main meat; light pounding smooths them so they cook evenly.
Egg
Binds the breadcrumbs to the chops so the coating adheres during frying.
Breadcrumbs
Form a crisp outer coating that browns when fried.

The step that matters

Frying the breadcrumbed chops. Frying until light brown sets the crumb coating and browns it through Maillard reactions; too little heat leaves the coating pale and soggy, while too much heat can scorch the crumbs before the meat is cooked through.

Swap the tomato

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, egg. 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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