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Haricot Mutton

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Haricot Mutton

Why it works: Carrot and turnip match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,002 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Haricot Mutton

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Place the mutton on a cutting board.

  2. Saw off the end of the rib-bone, leaving the cutlet-bone 3 inches long.

  3. Saw off the chine-bone at the back of the cutlets.

  4. Joint each cutlet with a chopper.

  5. Cut off each cutlet with a sharp knife.

  6. Beat each cutlet to about ½ inch thick.

  7. Trim the cutlet round, leaving ½ inch of rib-bone bare.

  8. Shape the cutlets nicely.

  9. Set aside the trimmings for clarifying fat.

  10. Peel and slice the onion.

  11. In a stewpan, combine the onion and cutlets with butter.

  12. Fry the cutlets on a quick fire until light brown, turning to cook evenly.

  13. Remove the cutlets from the stewpan.

  14. Pour off excess grease, leaving the onion; add flour and gradually stir in the stock until boiling.

  15. Strain the sauce and return the cutlets to the stewpan with the sauce.

  16. Wash and scrape the carrot, cutting it into fancy shapes.

  17. Peel and quarter the turnips.

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. Carrot + turniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,002 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Onion + turniptop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,585 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Pepper + carrottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,555 recipes

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

  4. Onion + carrottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together21,601 recipes

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

  5. Flour + turniptop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,874 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mutton, pepper, flour, carrot, turnip, butter):

  1. Leekfits better
  2. Parsnipfits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, pepper, flour, carrot, turnip, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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