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A Sick Dinner

A simple meal of mutton chop, potato, jelly, Graham bread, and pudding.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Mutton and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,488 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

A Sick Dinner

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Broil the thick, tender part of the mutton chop.

  2. Bake the mealy potato until soft.

  3. Serve with a little jelly.

  4. Add a slice of Graham bread.

  5. Serve half a cup of pudding.

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 + breadtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,488 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Potato + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together434 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  3. Mutton + potatotop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together293 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Mutton chop
Main protein; broiling its thick, tender part browns the surface and keeps the meat juicy.
Mealy potato
Starchy base that turns soft and fluffy when baked.
Graham bread
Adds a wholesome, slightly sweet and nutty bread accompaniment.
Pudding
Sweet dessert component that rounds out the meal.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Leekfits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, bread. 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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