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Cold Mutton, with Fur6e of Tomatoes

Sliced cold mutton served on a layer of fresh tomato purée cooked in a buttered pan.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Mutton and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,781 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Cold Mutton, with Fur6e of Tomatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Reduce the tomatoes to a pulp or purée.

  2. Butter a small pan.

Assemble

  1. Spread half of the tomato purée in the pan.

  2. Slice the cold mutton.

  3. Add the sliced mutton to the dish.

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 + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,781 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Tomato + muttontop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together452 recipes

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

  3. Tomato + buttertop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,918 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

What each ingredient does

Tomatoes
Provide the bulk of the purée, adding moisture, acidity and fresh tomato flavour.
Cold mutton
Supplies the meat and savoury flavour that the dish is built around.
Butter
Greases the pan so the dish does not stick and adds richness.

Swap the tomato

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

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Leekfits better
  3. Onionfits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, butter. 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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