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Mutton and Lamb

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Peas and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,058 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Mutton and Lamb

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the mutton or lamb into thin slices or leave it whole.

  2. If sliced, simmer for 4 hours; if whole, braise and press between two dishes with a heavy weight.

  3. Dip the pieces in beaten eggs and coat with bread crumbs.

  4. Fry the slices until golden brown.

  5. Serve with peas in the center or a thick vegetable puree.

  6. For vol-au-vents, mix with béchamel sauce and keep very white.

  7. For a curry, cook with plenty of vegetables or other meat.

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. Peas + tomatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,058 recipes

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

  2. Bread + tomatotop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,013 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Bread + peastop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together804 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexyl acetate (fruity, apple).

  4. Mutton + breadtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,488 recipes

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

  5. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mutton, egg, bread, peas, sauce):

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Tomatothe original
  4. Leekfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, egg, bread, peas, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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