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Broiled Mutton Chops

Broiled mutton chops are seasoned with pepper and coarse sea salt and cooked over a bright 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 Chops

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the chops from a well-hung, tender loin of mutton, removing excess fat and trimming them into a nice shape.

  2. Slightly beat and level the chops.

Broil

  1. Place a gridiron over a bright, clear fire and rub the bars with a little fat.

  2. Lay the chops on the gridiron and frequently turn them while broiling.

  3. After about eight minutes, they will be done.

Season and serve

  1. Season with pepper and coarse sea salt, then place on a very hot dish.

  2. Rub a small piece of butter on each chop and serve immediately.

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).

  2. Mutton + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,781 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 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

Loin of mutton
Forms the meat of the dish; its tenderness and fat content shape the chops' juiciness and flavour.
Butter
Melts over the hot chops, adding moisture and richness to the surface.

The step that matters

Turning the chops while broiling. Frequent turning exposes each side to direct heat evenly, so the outside browns without the chop drying or burning before the centre cooks through.

“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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