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A dinner featuring roasted shoulder of mutton served with apple tart, mashed turnips, mashed potatoes, gravy soup, and vegetables.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Turnip and potato work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 562 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Get the Dinner Beady

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Put the shoulder of mutton in the oven.

  2. Make the apple tart and place it in a cool place.

  3. Set the dining table.

  4. Boil the turnips.

  5. Boil the potatoes.

Cook the sides

  1. Place the tart in the oven.

  2. While the turnips and potatoes are boiling, clear the soup and add the vegetables.

  3. When the turnips are tender, mash them with butter, pepper, and salt, then keep warm.

  4. Prepare the gravy for the mutton.

Serve

  1. At dinner time, serve the soup, then serve the potatoes, mutton, and vegetables.

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. Turnip + potatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together562 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

  3. Turnip + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,252 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Potato + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,456 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  5. Apple + turniptop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together171 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

What each ingredient does

Shoulder of mutton
Provides the main meat, whose fat and connective tissue soften and moisten during long cooking.
Potatoes
Starch that cooks soft and mashes into a creamy side dish.
Turnips
Boiled and mashed to form a soft, smooth side dish.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a smoother mouthfeel in the mashed turnips.
Apple tart
Serves as the sweet course, with apples that soften and turn tender in the oven.

The step that matters

Boil the turnips until just tender. Undercooked turnips stay firm and resist smooth mashing, while overcooked turnips absorb water and turn watery and bland, so testing for tenderness before draining matters.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mutton, turnip, potato, butter, pepper):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Cherryfits about as well
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, turnip, potato, butter, pepper. 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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