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Broiled Mutton Chops

Broiled mutton chops seasoned with salt, pepper, and flour, then cooked over a fire and served with butter, salt, pepper, or tomato sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and tomato 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 ↓

Broiled Mutton Chops

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare and broil

  1. Sprinkle the chops with coarse sea salt, black pepper, and flour.

  2. Place them in a double broiler.

  3. Broil over the fire for 8 minutes.

Serve

  1. Serve on a hot dish with butter, salt, and pepper or tomato sauce.

Alternative method

  1. For a different method, season the chops, wrap in buttered paper, and broil for 10 minutes over a hot fire.

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. Pepper + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

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

  2. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Butter + saucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15,338 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Tomato + saucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,469 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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

Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 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
Main protein that is cooked over direct heat until done.
Flour
Dusting on the chops that helps form a light surface for browning.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture when served over the hot chops.

The step that matters

Broil over the fire for 8 minutes. Mutton chops are thin and dry out quickly under intense heat, so timing matters. Too long over the fire toughens the meat and dries the surface, while too short leaves the center undercooked.

Swap the tomato

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

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Leekfits about as well
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, pepper, flour, butter, sauce. 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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