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Mutton Pie

A pie made with mutton steaks, seasoned with pepper and coarse sea salt, covered by puff pastry and baked.

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 Pie

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mutton

  1. Remove the skin and outside fat from the loin of mutton.

  2. Cut the mutton into steaks and season with pepper and coarse sea salt.

Assemble and bake

  1. Place the seasoned steaks in a dish and pour in enough water to cover them.

  2. Top with a puff pastry crust and bake until well done.

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

Mutton loin
Provides the meat that becomes tender and flavourful as it cooks slowly under the crust.
Puff pastry crust
Forms a crisp, golden, flaky top that seals in the steam and juices.
Water
Creates moist steam in the dish, helping the meat stay juicy while it bakes.

The step that matters

Baking until well done. Mutton is tough and needs enough time for its connective tissue to break down. Stopping early leaves it chewy, while the pastry can brown before the meat is fully cooked.

“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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