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Roast Mutton

Roast mutton served with gravy thickened with brown flour and seasoned with coarse sea salt, white pepper, and currant jelly or mint sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and currant are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 26% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,077 recipes. The science ↓

Roast Mutton

Ingredients

Directions

Roast

  1. Roast the mutton as you would lamb.

  2. If the mutton is slightly rare, it's acceptable.

Make the gravy

  1. Skim off the grease from the gravy.

  2. Thicken the gravy with brown flour.

  3. Season with coarse sea salt and white pepper.

Serve

  1. Add currant jelly or serve with mint sauce.

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. Flour + curranttop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,077 recipes
  2. Mutton + curranttop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together393 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  3. Mutton + flourtop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,695 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (grass, green).

  4. Flour + white peppertop 32% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,228 recipes
  5. Mutton + white peppertop 34% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together195 recipes

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

What each ingredient does

Mutton
Is the main meat, cooked by roasting as you would lamb.
Brown flour
Thickens the pan gravy as it cooks, giving it body.

Swap the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mutton, flour, currant):

  1. Allspicefits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Cinnamonfits better
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, flour, currant. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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