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Mutton or Lamb Chops

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread 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 or Lamb Chops

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the chops nicely and trim off the fat.

  2. Fry the chops in oil or butter until golden brown.

  3. Arrange the chops on a serving dish with the bones facing up.

  4. Place pieces of fried bread between each chop.

  5. Make a puree of your chosen vegetables and spread it around the bottom of the dish.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Bread + peastop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together804 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexyl acetate (fruity, apple).

  3. Mutton + breadtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,488 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Pear + peastop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together36 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  5. Mutton + peastop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together598 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

Swap the pear

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mutton, butter, bread, peas):

  1. Red currantfits better
  2. Pumpkinfits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Pearthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, butter, bread, peas. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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