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Broiled Mutton and Tomato Sauce

Slices of cold mutton are seasoned, broiled, and topped with tomato sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 17,923 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Broiled Mutton and Tomato Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut nice slices from a cold leg or shoulder of mutton.

  2. Season with pepper and coarse sea salt.

Broil and serve

  1. Broil over a clear fire for about 5 minutes.

  2. Pour tomato sauce over the mutton and serve very hot.

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. Pepper + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Tomato + saucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,469 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Mutton + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,442 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Mutton + saucetop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,087 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanoic acid (soapy, waxy).

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

What each ingredient does

Mutton
Provides the main meat, which browns and firms as it broils.
Tomato sauce
Adds acidity and moisture, contrasting with the rich, savoury meat.

The step that matters

Broil over a clear fire. A clear, hot fire gives direct radiant heat that browns the surface quickly. Cold mutton heats through in a short time, so too little heat or too long a broil leaves it dry and tough.

Swap the tomato

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Tomatothe original
  3. Carrotfits about as well
  4. Shallotfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, pepper, sauce. 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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