Skip to main content
Main

Mutton Broth

A clear broth made by simmering lean mutton with water, salt, and onion.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓
Mutton Broth

Why it works: Mutton and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,531 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Mutton Broth

Ingredients

Directions

Make the broth

  1. Combine the mutton and water in a pot.

  2. Boil gently until the mutton is very tender, adding salt and onion to taste.

Cool and skim

  1. Pour the broth into a basin and let it cool.

  2. Skim off all the fat once cooled.

Serve

  1. If desired, add pre-cooked barley or rice when reheating the broth.

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.

Photo for illustrative purposes only · Contact us to use it

Explore the science

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 + oniontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,531 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Mutton
Supplies the meaty flavour, and its collagen gives the broth body as it simmers.
Onion
Adds aromatic, mildly sweet flavour to the broth as it simmers.

The step that matters

Boil gently. A hard boil toughens the meat's proteins and churns fat into the liquid, making the broth cloudy and greasy. A gentle simmer lets the mutton turn tender while the broth stays clear.

“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.

More mutton broth recipes

Scotch 33with Chops 5Jelly 3with Roots 3 See all 391 →

You might also like

Haricot MuttonHaricot Mutton59 recipesMutton SoupMutton Soup56 recipesCurried MuttonCurried Mutton9 recipesBeef, Mutton, or Veal BrothBeef, Mutton, or Veal Broth6 recipes