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To Dress Mutton Rumps and Kidneys

A dish of stewed mutton rumps and kidneys served with rice, breaded and fried, garnished with hard‑boiled eggs and pickles.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Clove and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 17,451 recipes. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

To Dress Mutton Rumps and Kidneys

Ingredients

Directions

Stew the rumps

  1. Stew the mutton rumps in good mutton gravy for 30 minutes.

  2. Remove the rumps from the gravy and let them cool.

  3. Strain the gravy to remove fat.

  4. Add boiled rice, the clove-studded onion, and mace to the strained gravy; boil until the rice thickens.

  5. While the rumps are stewing, lard the kidneys.

  6. Roast the larded kidneys in a Dutch oven.

Coat and fry

  1. Wash the rumps with beaten egg yolks.

  2. Coat the rumps with bread crumbs, pepper, coarse sea salt, chopped parsley, thyme, and grated lemon peel.

  3. Fry the rumps in butter until golden brown.

  4. Drain excess grease from the fried rumps.

Serve

  1. Warm the rice in the same pan.

  2. Serve the rice on a dish.

  3. Arrange the rumps around the rice with narrow ends towards the center.

  4. Place the kidneys in between the rumps.

  5. Garnish with hard-boiled egg halves and colored pickles.

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. Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  2. Clove + macetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,400 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

  3. Rice + oniontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,433 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

  5. Rice + peppertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,379 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 rumps
Slow stewing in gravy makes the meat tender before it is coated and fried.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, browned crust on the outside of the rumps when fried in butter.
Butter
Fries the coated rumps to golden brown, adding richness and browning.
Yolks of eggs, beaten
Act as a binding wash so the bread crumb coating sticks to the rumps.
Boiled rice
Thickens the strained gravy as it boils, giving it body.

The step that matters

Fry the coated rumps in butter until golden brown. Frying over too high heat can brown the crumb coating before the meat heats through, while too low a heat leaves the coating greasy and pale. Draining excess grease afterwards keeps the crust crisp.

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mutton, rice, onion, clove, egg, bread, pepper):

  1. Turmericfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, rice, onion, clove, egg, bread, 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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