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Mutton Chops

Mutton chops seasoned with coarse sea salt, butter, milk, and served with currant jelly.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Mutton Chops

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the chops

  1. Trim the chops, removing skin and excess fat.

  2. Flatten the chops with the broad side of a hatchet.

Cook and serve

  1. Broil the chops carefully over a clear fire, lifting the gridiron to prevent burning.

  2. Prepare a block-tin platter with a mound of mashed potatoes mixed with butter and milk.

  3. Arrange the chops around the mound, with large ends down and small ends up.

  4. Serve with currant jelly.

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 + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

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

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

  3. Milk + curranttop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,475 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

  4. Butter + curranttop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,856 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

  5. Mutton + milktop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together814 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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

What each ingredient does

Mutton chops
Provide the meat that is broiled and forms the main dish.
Butter
Adds richness and a smooth, moist texture to the mashed potatoes.
Milk
Adds moisture and creaminess to the mashed potatoes.
Currant jelly
Adds sweetness and acidity to balance the rich, fatty meat.

The step that matters

Broil the chops carefully over a clear fire. Lifting the gridiron keeps the chops away from the hottest flames, so the surface cooks through and browns without burning. Fat dripping onto fire causes flare-ups that scorch the meat.

Swap the currant

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

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Applefits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, butter, milk. 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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