Why it works: Sauce and currant work together. They rank in the top 35% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 628 recipes. The science ↓
Currant Jelly for Mutton
Ingredients
Directions
Make 1 cup of brown sauce and strain it.
Add 1 cup of melted currant jelly to the brown sauce.
Heat the mixture until the jelly is well mixed.
Serve very hot.
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 pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.
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Sauce + curranttop 35% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together628 recipes
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