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Hashed Mutton

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Nutmeg and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,318 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Hashed Mutton

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare a gravy with shin of beef and vegetables.

  2. Mince the veal finely, removing sinews, skin, and burnt pieces.

  3. Add the minced veal to the gravy and stew gently for 45 minutes.

  4. Skim the surface carefully.

  5. Add 6 oysters, cut into quarters, and a teaspoon of flour mixed with the oyster liquor.

  6. Add a pinch of nutmeg and squeeze in the lemon juice.

  7. Garnish with toasted bread sippets.

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. Nutmeg + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,318 recipes

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

  2. Flour + nutmegtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,623 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Beef + vealtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,784 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  4. Beef + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  5. Oyster + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,545 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, veal, oyster, flour, nutmeg, bread):

  1. Raisinfits about as well
  2. Lemonthe original
  3. Figfits about as well
  4. Pumpkinfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, veal, oyster, flour, nutmeg, bread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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