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Mutton or Lamb Pie

A pie filled with seasoned mutton or lamb steaks encased in pastry.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Mutton and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,442 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Mutton or Lamb Pie

Oven, in the book's wordsA slow oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a slow oven”. The 300°F (150°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare the lamb

  1. Remove the fat and skin from the loin and cut it into steaks.

  2. Season the steaks well with pepper and coarse sea salt.

Assemble and bake

  1. Almost fill a pie dish with water.

  2. Line the inside and top of the dish with pastry.

  3. Place the seasoned steaks in the dish and cover with the pastry.

  4. Bake in a slow oven at 300°F (150°C) until cooked through.

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 + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,442 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Lamb or mutton loin
Forms the main filling, and slow baking softens its connective tissue for tender meat.
Pastry
Encloses the meat and browns into a crisp crust on top.

The step that matters

Bake in a slow oven until cooked through. A slow, gentle oven lets the thick meat heat evenly to the center without drying out or toughening its outer layers. Check that the meat is cooked through before serving.

“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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