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Mutton Broth

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 18 ingredients
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Mutton Broth

Why it works: Celery and cabbage are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,840 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Mutton Broth

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a pot, combine barley and water; bring to a boil and simmer until tender.

  2. Add chopped celery and cook until soft.

  3. Serve with pickles, olives, bread, and butter on the side.

  4. Prepare scalloped oysters and serve alongside the broth.

  5. Roast turkey and serve with cranberry sauce.

  6. Boil potatoes and serve with sweet corn.

  7. Finish the meal with fruit salad, ice cream, cake, nuts, cheese, and coffee.

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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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. Celery + cabbagetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,840 recipes

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

  2. Barley + celerytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together571 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  3. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Barley + cabbagetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together124 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Olive + breadtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,091 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

Swap the cabbage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (barley, celery, olive, bread, butter, oyster, turkey):

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Leekfits better
  4. Cabbagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against barley, celery, olive, bread, butter, oyster, turkey. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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