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To Broil Mutton Cutlets

A recipe for broiling mutton cutlets seasoned with salt and pepper, served with optional sauces.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

To Broil Mutton Cutlets

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Trim off excess fat from the mutton cutlets.

  2. Season the cutlets with coarse sea salt and black pepper.

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

Broil and serve

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

  2. Cook for about 7 to 8 minutes for lightly broiled, or 10 minutes for well done.

  3. Serve with Maitre d’Hotel sauce, brown gravy, or melted butter seasoned with mushroom catsup, cayenne, chili vinegar, or lemon juice.

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. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  2. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  3. Pepper + mushroomtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,580 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Mutton + mushroomtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together685 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + vinegartop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

What each ingredient does

Mutton cutlets
The main meat, cooked directly over heat until browned on the outside.
Mutton suet
Rubbed on the hot grill to prevent sticking and add a little fat to the surface.

The step that matters

Broiling over a brisk fire, turning often. Frequent turning over strong heat lets the outside brown and cook evenly without drying or burning the surface before the centre reaches the desired doneness.

Swap the lemon

The recipe marks lemon as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mutton, pepper, butter, sauce, mushroom, vinegar):

  1. Plumfits about as well
  2. Lemonthe original
  3. Grapefits about as well
  4. Cherryfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, pepper, butter, sauce, mushroom, vinegar. 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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