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Mutton or Lamb Chops

Fried mutton or lamb chops seasoned with salt and pepper, optionally breaded with egg and breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Mutton and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,488 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Mutton or Lamb Chops

Ingredients

Directions

Season and fry

  1. Trim the chops nicely and season with salt and pepper.

  2. Fry the chops in hot lard until cooked through.

Bread and fry again

  1. Roll the chops in bread crumbs.

  2. Dip the chops in beaten egg.

  3. Coat the chops again in bread crumbs.

  4. Fry the chops in hot lard until cooked through.

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 + breadtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,488 recipes

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

  2. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

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

  4. Pepper + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

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

  5. Mutton + eggtop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,648 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 or lamb chops
The main ingredient; its fat renders and its surface browns in the hot lard, adding flavor.
Lard for frying
Conducts heat to the chops and browns the outside, giving a crisp, golden surface.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, browned coating around the chops when fried.
1 beaten egg
Binds the bread crumbs to the chops so the coating sticks during frying.

The step that matters

Frying the breaded chops in hot lard until cooked through. Bread crumbs brown quickly in hot fat, while heat must travel into the thick meat to cook the centre. If the lard is too hot, the coating darkens or burns before the inside is cooked through, so the heat should be high enough to crisp the crumbs but not so high that they scorch.

“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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