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A slow‑boiled mutton rubbed with salt and flour, then baked until browned, served with mint sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Mutton and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 29% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,695 recipes. Both carry hexanal, which smells grass, green. The science ↓

To Cook Mutton

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Boil the mutton slowly for 2 hours.

  2. Transfer it to a baking pan and rub it with coarse sea salt and flour.

  3. Baste it with the hot cooking liquid.

Roast and serve

  1. Bake at 400°F (200°C) for 1 hour, browning on all sides.

  2. Serve with mint sauce.

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 + flourtop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,695 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (grass, green).

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 becomes tender through slow boiling before roasting.
Flour
Helps the rubbed coating brown and form a crust during roasting.
Coarse sea salt
Seasons the surface and helps draw out moisture for a drier exterior.

The step that matters

Bake at 400°F (200°C) for 1 hour, browning on all sides.. The meat has already been boiled, so the oven step is for browning. Turning it so all sides brown evenly builds a crust, which depends on the surface being dry and hot enough.

“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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