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To Dress Mutton Chops

Breaded mutton chops coated with butter, breadcrumbs, parsley, marjoram, and spices, then fried and served with onions or gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and marjoram match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,979 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

To Dress Mutton Chops

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Pare and trim the mutton chops.

  2. Dip the chops into hot melted butter.

  3. Cover the chops with grated bread mixed with chopped parsley, sweet marjoram, coarse sea salt, and black pepper.

  4. Dip the chops into beaten egg yolks.

  5. Cover the chops with the bread crumbs again.

Cook and serve

  1. Fry the chops in butter until golden brown.

  2. Serve with onions browned in butter, seasoned with salt and pepper, or with thickened brown 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.

  1. Parsley + marjoramtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,979 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  3. Marjoram + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,609 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

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

  5. Parsley + oniontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Mutton chops
The main meat, which the coating and frying are built around.
Grated bread
Forms a crisp, golden crust when fried in butter.
Egg yolks
Bind the bread crumbs so the coating adheres to the chops.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the crust brown as it fries.
Chopped parsley
Adds fresh, herbal aroma to the crumb coating.

The step that matters

Fry the chops in butter until golden brown. Medium heat lets the crust brown and the meat cook through; too high a heat scorches the breadcrumbs before the chop is done, while too low a heat leaves the coating greasy and pale.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mutton, butter, bread, parsley, marjoram, pepper, egg):

  1. Carrotfits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Leekfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, butter, bread, parsley, marjoram, pepper, egg. 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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