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Mutton Hashed

A savory mutton hash made with bones, herbs, mace, pepper, salt, crust, butter, flour, and served over toasted bread with pickles and horseradish.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and horseradish match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,784 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Mutton Hashed

Ingredients

Directions

Make the sauce

  1. Boil the bones with the onion, sweet herbs, mace, whole pepper, coarse sea salt, and toasted crust until there is enough liquid for sauce.

  2. Strain the mixture and return it to the pan with butter and flour.

Finish and serve

  1. Add the mutton and heat until very hot.

  2. Season with pepper and salt.

  3. Toast the bread and cut it into triangles.

  4. Place the toasted bread in a dish and pour the hash over it.

  5. Garnish with pickles and horseradish.

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. Onion + horseradishtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,784 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Pepper + horseradishtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,646 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Mutton
Provides the meat that forms the body of the hash.
Butter
Adds fat and richness to the sauce and carries flavour.
Flour
Thickens the strained liquid into a sauce as it cooks with the butter.
Onion
Adds savoury, aromatic flavour to the broth made from the bones.

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mutton, onion, pepper, butter, flour, bread, horseradish):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Parsleyfits better
  3. Garlicfits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, onion, pepper, butter, flour, bread, horseradish. 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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