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Mutton and Lamb Cutlets a LA Bouchere

Lamb or mutton cutlets seasoned with salt and pepper, broiled until cooked.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Lamb and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,165 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Mutton and Lamb Cutlets a LA Bouchere

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Chop the neck of lamb or mutton into cutlets about 6 inches long, leaving a bone in each.

  2. Flatten the cutlets with a chopper without trimming them.

  3. Season the cutlets generously with coarse sea salt and black pepper.

Cook and serve

  1. Broil the cutlets quickly until cooked through.

  2. Serve hot.

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. Lamb + peppertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,165 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Neck of lamb or mutton
Provides the meat for the cutlets, with the bone left in to hold shape and add flavor.

The step that matters

Broil the cutlets quickly until cooked through. Flattened cutlets are thin, so high direct heat browns the surface quickly while the inside cooks. Overcooking dries the lean meat and toughens it, so checking for doneness matters.

“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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