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Mutton Chops

Mutton chops are bone‑centered pieces of mutton seasoned with salt and pepper, broiled and served with browned 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. Trim the end of the bone and fat from the loin of mutton, leaving solid meat.

  2. Grease the broiler with a little fat.

Cook

  1. Place the chops on the broiler and broil for four minutes on each side.

  2. Slice the potatoes thickly and brown them in a frying pan with butter, salt, and pepper.

Serve

  1. Serve the chops garnished with the browned potatoes on a hot platter.

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

Loin of mutton
Forms the main meat of the dish, cooked quickly over direct heat.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, and helps the potatoes brown in the pan.
Potatoes
Browned in butter, they develop a crisp golden surface and a soft interior.

The step that matters

Broiling the chops. Thin chops cook quickly under intense heat, so timing matters. Leaving too much fat or bone can cause uneven cooking, and overcooking dries the lean meat.

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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