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Roast Leg of Mutton

Roast leg of mutton boiled then spit‑roasted, served with roasted tomatoes or potatoes and haricots a la Bretonne.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Mutton and tomato work together. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 452 recipes. Both carry 1-nonanal, which smells fatty, waxy. The science ↓

Roast Leg of Mutton

Ingredients

Directions

Simmer

  1. Cover the leg of mutton with water in a pot.

  2. Bring the water to a boil, then let it simmer gently for 30 minutes.

Roast

  1. Remove the mutton from the water and place it on a spit.

  2. Roast the mutton for 1 hour and 15 minutes, adjusting time based on size.

Serve

  1. Garnish with roasted tomatoes or potatoes, or serve with haricots a la Bretonne.

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 + tomatotop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together452 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-nonanal (fatty, waxy).

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

What each ingredient does

Mutton
The main cut; simmering and roasting soften its connective tissue and set its protein for a tender texture.

The step that matters

Adjusting the roasting time for size. Heat must travel from the surface to the centre of the joint. A larger leg needs longer to cook through, so a fixed time can leave the middle underdone or the outside overdone.

“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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