Why it works: Egg and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 106,462 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓
Mutton Outlets
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Chop the mutton into thin chops and shape them into cutlets.
Flatten the cutlets with a chopper, then season with pepper and salt.
Sprinkle a little flour over the cutlets, dip them in beaten egg, and coat with breadcrumbs.
Cook
Heat clarified dripping in a pan.
Cook the cutlets for about 15 minutes.
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.
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Egg + flourtop 15% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together106,462 recipes
Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
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Pepper + flourtop 19% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together50,459 recipes
Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
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Pepper + eggtop 33% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together50,580 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Egg and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 106,462 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
- Neck chops
- The meat forms the body of the cutlet and gives it its rich, savoury flavour.
- Egg
- Binds the coating so the breadcrumbs adhere firmly to the cutlet.
- Flour
- Dries the meat surface so the beaten egg sticks evenly.
- Breadcrumbs
- Form a crisp, golden coating that browns when fried.
- Clarified dripping
- Fat that conducts heat for frying and adds savoury richness and browning.
The step that matters
Coat the cutlets evenly. A thin, even layer of flour and egg helps the breadcrumbs stick. Bare or patchy spots can let the coating fall away or scorch in the hot fat.
“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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