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Broiled Mutton Cutlets

Broiled mutton cutlets seasoned with salt and pepper, grilled over a brisk fire.

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 ↓

Broiled Mutton Cutlets

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Trim excess fat from the mutton cutlets.

  2. Season the cutlets with salt and pepper.

  3. Heat a grill and rub it with a bit of mutton suet.

Broil

  1. Broil the cutlets over a brisk fire, turning them often.

  2. Cook for about 8 minutes or until done to your liking.

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).

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

What each ingredient does

Mutton cutlets
Provide the meat itself, which is cooked directly over the heat until done.
Mutton suet
Greases the grill so the cutlets do not stick to it during broiling.

The step that matters

Turning the cutlets often over a brisk fire. Frequent turning exposes both sides to direct heat evenly, so the outside browns without the inside overcooking. Cutlets are thin, so the window between done and dry is short.

“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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