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Savory Mutton Sandwiches

A sandwich made with chopped mutton, capers, salt, pepper, and buttered whole wheat bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Wheat and bread match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 209 recipes. Both carry 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, which smells popcorn, roasted. The science ↓

Savory Mutton Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. In a bowl, mix the chopped mutton, capers, salt, and pepper until well combined.

Assemble and serve

  1. Spread the mixture between slices of buttered whole wheat bread.

  2. Cut into desired sandwich shapes and serve.

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. Wheat + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together209 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Capers + peppertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,088 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Capers + wheattop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together20 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Pepper + wheattop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together984 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

Chopped mutton
Provides the savoury meat that forms the main body of the filling.
Capers
Add a sharp, briny acidity that cuts through the richness of the meat.
Buttered whole wheat bread
Gives a soft, buttery base and a sturdy structure to hold the filling.

Swap the capers

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

  1. Parsleyfits better
  2. Marjoramfits better
  3. Turmericfits better
  4. Capersthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, pepper, wheat, 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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