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Mutton Chops

Broiled mutton chops served with boiled mashed potatoes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,305 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Mutton Chops

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Preheat the broiler.

  2. Roll the mutton chops in melted butter and season with pepper and coarse sea salt.

Cook and serve

  1. Broil the chops until cooked to your liking.

  2. Make a mound of boiled mashed potatoes in the center of a dish.

  3. Lay the chops in the dish with the larger ends on the dish and the small ends on the potato mound.

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 + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Butter + potatotop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,456 recipes

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

  3. Mutton + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,442 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Mutton + potatotop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together293 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Mutton chops
Main protein; broiling cooks the meat quickly, browning its surface while the inside stays tender.
Melted butter
Coats the chops, adding moisture and richness and helping the surface brown under the broiler.
Boiled mashed potatoes
Soft base that holds the chops and adds a mild, starchy counterpoint to the meat.

The step that matters

Broil the chops until cooked to your liking. Broiler heat is intense and close, so chops can scorch on the outside before the center is done. Watching closely and checking the thickest part keeps the meat juicy and evenly cooked.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Potatothe original
  2. Capsicumfits about as well
  3. Carrotfits about as well
  4. Onionfits about as well

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