Name: Kolled Mutton
Ingredients: mutton; parsley; bacon fat; fish skin; fish bones

Why it works: Mutton and fish work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 121 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Kolled Mutton

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mutton a few hours before cooking.
Place the cold mutton on a clean dish.
Garnish with parsley.
Preserve any gravy that may have run from the mutton.

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.

Mutton + fishtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together121 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Parsley + fishtop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,341 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Mutton + parsleytop 25% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,915 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).