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Mutton, Saddle Of, Roasted

Roasted saddle of mutton served with red currant jelly or port‑wine sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Mutton and red currant work together. They rank in the top 24% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 82 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Mutton, Saddle Of, Roasted

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

  1. Hang the saddle of mutton in a cool, airy place for 4 to 5 days.

  2. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).

  3. Skin the joint.

  4. Tie the skin securely over it until 30 minutes before serving.

Roast

  1. Remove the skin.

  2. Brown the surface of the meat.

  3. Roast for 2.5 hours for a 10‑pound saddle, or less if you prefer it underdone.

Serve

  1. Make gravy in the dripping pan.

  2. Serve a little in the dish.

  3. Serve more in a tureen with red currant jelly or port‑wine 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. Mutton + red curranttop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together82 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Saddle of mutton
Is the main cut of meat, whose texture and flavour develop through hanging and roasting.

The step that matters

Roast for 2.5 hours for a 10‑pound saddle, or less if you prefer it underdone.. Time depends on the joint's weight and how done you want it. Mutton left too long loses moisture and turns dry, so check doneness rather than relying only on the clock.

“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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