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Braized Mutton Cutlets

Braised mutton cutlets coated in Soubise sauce, eggs, and breadcrumbs, fried and served with a vegetable Macedoine and glaze.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 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 ↓

Braized Mutton Cutlets

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the cutlets

  1. Stud the mutton cutlets with red tongue and black truffles.

  2. Trim the cutlets and coat them with reduced Soubise sauce.

  3. Let the coated cutlets set by cooling.

Bread and chill

  1. Beat the eggs with a little salt.

  2. Dip each cutlet in the egg mixture.

  3. Coat each cutlet with bread crumbs. Flatten the bread crumbs with a knife.

  4. Place the cutlets on a dish in a cool place until ready to fry.

Fry and serve

  1. Heat hog's lard in a deep frying pan until hot.

  2. Fry the cutlets until they are a deep yellow color.

  3. Drain the cutlets on a napkin or paper to absorb excess grease.

  4. Arrange the cutlets in a circle on a vegetable border. Fill the center with a Macedoine of vegetables. Pour half glaze around the base.

  5. Serve.

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 + 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. Truffle + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together531 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Mutton + truffletop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98 recipes

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

  5. Truffle + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,604 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the bread crumbs to the cutlets so the coating holds during frying.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating that browns when fried.
Black truffles
Add aroma and earthy flavour to the mutton.
Red tongue
Adds savoury flavour and texture to the cutlets.
Soubise sauce (reduced)
Adds a thick onion-based layer that helps the cutlets set and carry flavour.

The step that matters

Let the coated cutlets set by cooling. Cooling firms the Soubise coating so it stays in place during egg dipping and crumbing. A warm, soft coating can slide off or smear before frying.

“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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