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Mutton Soup

A hearty soup made with mutton, celery, onion, potato, oatmeal, and milk or cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Mutton Soup

Why it works: Onion and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,023 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Mutton Soup

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare and stew

  1. Strip the fat from the mutton loin.

  2. Place the meat in a kettle with cold water and stew slowly for 3 to 4 hours.

Add vegetables and finish

  1. Add the celery, onion, potato, and oatmeal to the kettle.

  2. When nearly done, stir in the milk or add cream after serving.

  3. Serve hot.

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. Onion + potatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Celery + potatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,047 recipes

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

  3. Celery + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,518 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Potato + milktop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  5. Mutton + oniontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,531 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Mutton loin
Provides rich meat flavor and body as it stews slowly in the water.
Oatmeal
Thickens the broth slightly as its starch swells during cooking.
Potato
Adds starch that helps thicken the soup and softens into the broth.
Milk or cream
Adds richness and smooth, mellow body to the finished soup.

The step that matters

Stirring in the milk or cream. Dairy added to a boiling soup can curdle or separate, so it is best stirred in when nearly done and kept below a hard boil.

Swap the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mutton, onion, potato, milk):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Celerythe original
  3. Thymefits about as well
  4. Cuminfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, onion, potato, milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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