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Sauted Mutton Chops

Sautéed mutton chops seasoned with salt, pepper, and butter, cooked quickly in a hot pan and served hot.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 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 ↓

Sauted Mutton Chops

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Trim excess fat and skin from the mutton chops.

  2. Heat a frying pan until hot.

Cook

  1. Place the chops in the pan and brown them quickly on both sides.

  2. Move the pan away from the heat and cook the chops to your desired doneness.

Serve

  1. Transfer the chops to a hot platter, season with salt, pepper, and butter, and 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. Mutton + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,442 recipes

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

  2. Mutton + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,781 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 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 chops
Main protein; browning them quickly seals the surface while the inside cooks gently to the chosen doneness.
Butter
Adds fat and richness to the finished chops at the end of cooking.

The step that matters

Brown the chops quickly, then move the pan off the heat. A hot pan browns the surface through the Maillard reaction, which builds flavour. Leaving the chops over direct heat too long would overcook the interior and toughen the meat, so moving the pan off the heat lets the centre finish gently.

“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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