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Cold Mutton with Purée of Tomatoes

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Mutton and tomato work together. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 452 recipes. Both carry 1-nonanal, which smells fatty, waxy. The science ↓

Cold Mutton with Purée of Tomatoes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Slice the cold mutton thinly.

  2. Prepare a purée by cooking and blending the tomatoes until smooth.

  3. Serve the sliced mutton with the tomato purée on the side.

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 + tomatotop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together452 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-nonanal (fatty, waxy).

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

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