Why it works: Mutton and lime work together. They rank in the top 34% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 99 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓
Preservation of Eggs
Ingredients
Directions
Melt mutton suet and anoint the eggs to close the pores of the shell.
Set the eggs on end, wedged close together in bran.
Cover the containing box tightly.
Alternatively, mix slacked quick-lime with water to a thin cream and fully submerge the eggs in this liquid.
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.
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Mutton + limetop 34% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together99 recipes
Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
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