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To Hash a Letr of Mutlmi

A hash made from roasted leg of mutton, water or gravy, red wine, shallots, oyster pickle, thickened with flour.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Shallot and horseradish match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 376 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

To Hash a Letr of Mutlmi

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Let the roasted mutton cool, then cut it into thin pieces.

Cook

  1. In a stewpan, combine the mutton, water or gravy, red wine, shallots, and oyster pickle.

  2. Thicken the mixture with flour and heat until warmed through.

Serve

  1. Serve garnished with horseradish and pickles.

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 + horseradishtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together376 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Shallot + flourtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,081 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Flour + horseradishtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together743 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Red wine + shallottop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together231 recipes

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

  5. Oyster + horseradishtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together282 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

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

What each ingredient does

Roasted mutton
Provides the meat that forms the bulk of the hash.
Flour
Thickens the liquid into a binding sauce that coats the meat.
Red wine
Adds acidity and depth of flavour to the sauce.
Shallots
Add sweetness and aroma as they soften in the liquid.
Oyster pickle
Adds a tangy, savoury sharpness to the mixture.

The step that matters

Thicken the mixture with flour and heat until warmed through. Flour must be cooked in the hot liquid so it thickens smoothly; adding it raw or unevenly can leave lumps or a pasty taste, and overheating can make the sauce tight or dry.

Swap the horseradish

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mutton, red wine, shallot, oyster, flour):

  1. Chivefits about as well
  2. Welsh onionfits about as well
  3. Horseradishthe original
  4. Leekfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, red wine, shallot, oyster, flour. 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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