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To Broil Mutton Steaks

Broiled mutton steaks served hot with butter, shallot, mushroom ketchup, and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Shallot and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,982 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

To Broil Mutton Steaks

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Preheat the gridiron and rub it with fresh suet.

Cook

  1. Place the mutton steaks on the gridiron, turning them frequently to prevent smoking.

  2. Once cooked, transfer the steaks to a hot dish.

  3. Rub the steaks with butter.

Finish and serve

  1. Slice the shallot thinly and mix the sliced shallot with water.

  2. Pour the mixture over the steaks along with mushroom ketchup and salt.

  3. Serve 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. Shallot + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,982 recipes

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

  2. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  3. Mutton + mushroomtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together685 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Shallot + ketchuptop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together476 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Mushroom + ketchuptop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,225 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Mutton steaks
Form the main body of the dish, cooked by direct heat to a browned surface.
Fresh suet
Rubbed on the gridiron to add fat, helping keep the steaks from sticking.
Butter
Adds fat and richness to the cooked steaks, giving a softer, savoury finish.
Shallot
Adds a mild, sharp aromatic flavour when steeped in water and spooned over.
Mushroom ketchup
Adds concentrated savoury, umami flavour to the sauce poured over the steaks.

The step that matters

Turning the steaks frequently. Turning often keeps the surface from overheating and charring before the interior cooks. Fat dripping onto the hot gridiron can flare up and smoke, so the steaks need steady attention.

“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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