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Broiled Lamb Chops

Broiled lamb or mutton chops seasoned with butter, coarse sea salt, white pepper, and hot water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Lamb and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,232 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Broiled Lamb Chops

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Trim the fat and skin from the lamb or mutton chops.

  2. Cut the chops to be at least 1 inch thick.

Broil and serve

  1. Place the chops over hot coals in a wire broiler.

  2. Cook for about 10 minutes, turning once until just done.

  3. On a hot platter, combine butter, salt, white pepper, and hot water.

  4. Dip the seasoning over the chops 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.

Explore the science

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. Lamb + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Butter + white peppertop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Lamb + white peppertop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together102 recipes

    Shared aroma: sabinene (woody, terpenic).

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

What each ingredient does

Lamb or mutton chops
The main meat, cooked quickly over direct heat so the outside browns while the inside stays tender.
Butter
Adds richness and fat that carries the seasoning and moistens the cooked surface of the chops.

The step that matters

Cook for about 10 minutes, turning once until just done. Lamb chops go from tender to dry within minutes. Turning once and checking for doneness helps the heat cook the meat evenly without overcooking the thinner edges.

Swap the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lamb, butter):

  1. Parsleyfits better
  2. Cinnamonfits better
  3. Garlicfits better
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lamb, butter. 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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