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To Broil Mutton Chops

A simple broiled mutton chop dish seasoned with salt and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Mutton and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,442 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

To Broil Mutton Chops

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Preheat the grill to medium heat.

  2. Season the mutton chops with salt and pepper.

Grill and serve

  1. Place the chops on the grill and turn them frequently.

  2. Cook until they are browned but not overdone.

  3. Transfer the chops to a hot dish 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. Mutton + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,442 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Mutton chops
Provide the meat itself, which browns on the grill and becomes tender when cooked through.

The step that matters

Cook until browned but not overdone. Meat proteins toughen and dry out as they overcook, so removing the chops once browned keeps them juicy. Frequent turning promotes even browning and prevents the surface from scorching before the centre is cooked.

“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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