Name: Mutton Cutlets, Bread-crumbed and Broiled with Shalot Gravy
Ingredients: Mutton cutlets; Salt; Pepper; 2 egg yolks; Fine bread crumbs; Clarified butter

Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Mutton Cutlets, Bread-crumbed and Broiled with Shalot Gravy

Ingredients

Directions

Trim the mutton cutlets and season with salt and pepper.
Beat the egg yolks in a plate and lightly brush the cutlets with them.
Coat each cutlet in fine bread crumbs, then dip in clarified butter and coat again with bread crumbs.
Shape the cutlets with a knife and place them on a grill.
Broil over a clear fire until they are light brown.
Glaze the cutlets and serve with plain or shallot gravy.

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.

Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together27,232 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Mutton + breadtop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,488 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together22,662 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
Mutton + peppertop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together5,442 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Mutton + buttertop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together3,781 recipes

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