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Mutton-chop, Plain

A lean mutton chop grilled with salt and pepper until tender.

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 ↓

Mutton-chop, Plain

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut a chop from the lean side of a loin of mutton and trim off the fat.

  2. Beat the chop to make it tender.

Grill and serve

  1. Preheat the grill to a clear fire and place the chop on it.

  2. Season with coarse sea salt and pepper.

  3. Turn the chop several times while broiling.

  4. Press the chop; if it feels tender, it is cooked.

  5. Serve on a very hot plate.

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 chop
Provides the lean meat that browns over direct heat and becomes tender when cooked through.

The step that matters

Pressing the chop to check doneness. Meat firms as its proteins set with heat, so a gentle press shows how cooked it is. Pressing is a rough check, so cooks often err by judging too early or by overcooking while the chop is turned.

“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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