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Mutton Broth

A clear broth made by boiling mutton, skimming fat, and seasoning with salt, optionally adding rice or barley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Mutton Broth

Why it works: Mutton and rice are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,019 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Mutton Broth

Ingredients

Directions

Make the broth

  1. Boil the mutton until it falls from the bone.

  2. Strain the broth and let it cool so the fat rises.

  3. Remove the fat from the broth.

Finish

  1. Warm the broth and add a little salt.

  2. Optionally, add swelled rice or barley.

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 + ricetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,019 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

Mutton
Gives the broth its main meaty flavor and body as it simmers.
Swelled rice or barley
Adds bulk and a soft, starchy texture to the broth.

The step that matters

Remove the fat from the broth.. Fat cooled to the surface solidifies into a layer that lifts off cleanly. Removing it while the broth is cold keeps the final broth light rather than greasy.

“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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