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A Dinner At New-tork

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and mutton are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 26% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,648 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

A Dinner At New-tork

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Break the eggs into a dripping pan.

  2. Make two or three incisions in the roast mutton to allow the juices to flow more freely.

  3. Cook the eggs until done, then serve them with the mutton.

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. Egg + muttontop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,648 recipes

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

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