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Mutton Trotters

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Nutmeg and shallot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,019 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Mutton Trotters

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil sheep's trotters until tender.

  2. Remove the bones carefully.

  3. Dip the trotters into a batter and fry, or stew them after boning.

  4. For forcemeat, pound together cooked veal and bacon or suet.

  5. Mix with bread crumbs, pepper, salt, nutmeg, and bind with beaten egg.

  6. Stuff the trotters with the forcemeat.

  7. Stew the stuffed trotters in the broth for about 20 minutes, adding shredded shallot and store sauce.

  8. Place trotters on a dish, boil the sauce rapidly for 10 minutes, then pour it over the trotters and serve.

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. Nutmeg + shallottop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,019 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Pepper + nutmegtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together13,015 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + shallottop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,898 recipes

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

  4. Vinegar + shallottop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,374 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Bread + shallottop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,245 recipes

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

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

Swap the nutmeg

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (vinegar, veal, bread, pepper, egg, shallot, sauce):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Tarragonfits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. Nutmegthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against vinegar, veal, bread, pepper, egg, shallot, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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