Name: Mutton Pudding
Ingredients: cold mutton; 2-3 fresh mutton chops; pepper; coarse sea salt

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 Pudding

Ingredients

cold mutton
2-3 fresh mutton chops
pepper
coarse sea salt

Directions

Prepare

Mix cold mutton with fresh mutton chops and trim cuttings from the breast or loin.
Season the mixture with pepper and coarse sea salt to taste.
Prepare the pudding as directed for beef-steak puddings.

Cook

Boil for about 2 hours.

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.

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

Cold mutton: Provides the main meat filling and its savory flavor.
Fresh mutton chops: Add fresh meat and juices to the filling, adding moisture and richness.

“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.