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Mutton Cutlets with Sorrel Sauce

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,491 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Mutton Cutlets with Sorrel Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Divide the neck of mutton into neat cutlets.

  2. Season with coarse sea salt and black pepper, then marinate for the day.

  3. Melt butter in a saucepan, stir in flour, and add warm fish gravy.

  4. Let the sauce thicken, then add lime juice, sugar, Tabasco, and chopped capsicums.

  5. Serve the fried cutlets with the sorrel sauce.

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. Pepper + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,491 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Sorrel + limetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together15 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Sorrel + flourtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together231 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Pepper + sorreltop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together419 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Onion + sorreltop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together459 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the lime

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

  1. Lemonfits about as well
  2. Limethe original
  3. Coconutfits less well
  4. Plumfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, pepper, onion, sorrel, butter, flour, fish. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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