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Mutton Chops with Mashed Potatoes

Mutton chops served with mashed potatoes, shallots, and horseradish.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Shallot and horseradish match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 376 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Mutton Chops with Mashed Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Bone the loin of mutton and cut it into thick steaks.

  2. Season the steaks with pepper and coarse sea salt.

Cook and serve

  1. Broil the steaks over a clear coal fire, ensuring they are not overcooked.

  2. Prepare hot mashed potatoes in a tin mold.

  3. Arrange the chops around the mashed potatoes and serve immediately.

  4. Serve chopped shallots and scraped horseradish on separate plates.

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. Shallot + horseradishtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together376 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Potato + horseradishtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together171 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Potato + shallottop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together272 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Pepper + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + horseradishtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,646 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

What each ingredient does

Loin of mutton
Forms the main meat; thick steaks cook through while staying juicy if not overcooked.
Mashed potatoes
Provide a soft, starchy base that holds the hot chops and absorbs meat juices.
Chopped shallots
Add a mild, sharp onion flavour that complements the rich meat.
Scraped horseradish
Adds a pungent, sharp heat that cuts through the richness of the mutton.

The step that matters

Broiling the steaks. Mutton overcooks quickly over a fierce fire, turning dry and tough. Thick steaks need steady heat and close attention so the inside stays tender and juicy.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mutton, pepper, shallot, horseradish):

  1. Mustardfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Turnipfits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, pepper, shallot, horseradish. 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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