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Mutton Baked Roll

A baked roll of mutton, bacon, veal forcemeat, and pickled walnuts, served with a gravy of currant jelly, parsley, breadcrumbs, pepper, and sea salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Mutton Baked Roll

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare

  1. Bone the mutton and trim excess fat. Use bones to make stock for Scotch broth.

  2. Lay the meat on a board, cover with bacon, and add a layer of veal forcemeat.

  3. Add pieces of pickled walnuts, roll tightly, and tie with string.

  4. Cover with greased paper and place in a baking tin.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake in a moderate oven (350°F/175°C), basting occasionally.

  2. Serve with gravy made by boiling together currant jelly, parsley, bread crumbs, pepper, and coarse sea salt.

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. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Walnut + parsleytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together865 recipes

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

  5. Lemon + walnuttop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,149 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Breast of mutton
Forms the main body of the roll and becomes tender and juicy as it cooks.
Bacon
Lays fat over the meat, adding savoury flavour and moisture during baking.
Veal forcemeat
Fills the roll with a moist, herbed layer that flavours the meat as it bakes.
Pickled walnuts
Add a sharp, tangy note that contrasts with the rich meat and forcemeat.

The step that matters

Rolling and tying tightly. A tight roll keeps the filling in place and gives even slices. Loose rolling lets the forcemeat escape and cook unevenly during baking.

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mutton, veal, lemon, walnut, parsley, bread, pepper):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Orangefits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, veal, lemon, walnut, parsley, bread, pepper. 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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