Why it works: Lamb and rabbit share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 51 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓
Swilled Mutton
Ingredients
Directions
The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.
Prepare
Preheat your oven to 400°F (200°C).
Stuff the whole sheep with the lamb.
Stuff the lamb with the hare and rabbits.
Stuff the goose with the duck and other delicacies.
Roast
Roast the entire assembly in the oven until cooked through.
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.
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Lamb + rabbittop 1% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together51 recipes
Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
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The step that matters
Roasting the entire assembly until cooked through. The nested cavities make the centre heat slowly, and dense stuffed meat can stay underdone in the middle while the outside browns. The innermost meat must reach a safe internal temperature throughout.
“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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