Name: Roast Mutton
Ingredients: one teaspoonful salt; one saltspoonful pepper; one teaspoonful mint; one coffee cup coarse cracker crumbs

Why it works: Pepper and mint are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,372 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Roast Mutton

Ingredients

one teaspoonful salt
one saltspoonful pepper
one teaspoonful mint
one coffee cup coarse cracker crumbs

Directions

Prepare

Choose a leg or loin of mutton.
Remove the bone from the leg or loin.

Make the stuffing

Prepare stuffing by mixing one coffee cup coarse cracker crumbs, one teaspoonful salt, one saltspoonful pepper, and one teaspoonful dried powdered mint.
Moisten the stuffing with melted butter.
Fill the bone cavity with the prepared stuffing.

Roast

Roast the mutton.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

72Calories

1 gProtein

2 gFat

12 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 5 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Cracker	5 saltine crackers (15g)	66
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Peppermint	not in our table	0
Coffee	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Clarke, Mary Lamson. [from old catalog]. 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. See the original page.

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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.

Pepper + minttop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,372 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Pepper + coffeetop 26% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together313 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Mint + coffeetop 27% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together39 recipes

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