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Leg of Mutton Boiled

A leg of mutton boiled in water, wrapped in floured cloth, then cooled.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Mutton and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 29% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,695 recipes. Both carry hexanal, which smells grass, green. The science ↓

Leg of Mutton Boiled

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Flour a cloth and tightly tie the leg of mutton in it.

Boil and finish

  1. Put the tied mutton into boiling water and boil for 1.5 hours.

  2. Once done, place it in a pan and pour cold water over it.

  3. Let it sit for 2 minutes before removing the cloth.

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 + flourtop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,695 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (grass, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Leg of mutton
Forms the main body of the dish; boiling cooks the meat through while the cloth holds its shape.
Flour
Dusting the cloth creates a thin barrier that helps the cloth release and keeps the meat's surface from sticking.

The step that matters

Tying the mutton tightly in the floured cloth. A loose wrap lets water reach the meat unevenly and the cloth can slip or unravel during boiling. A firm, even wrap keeps the joint compact so it cooks uniformly and holds its shape.

“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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