Why it works: Corn and walnut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 349 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓
Mutton, Hashed, Plain
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare a nice brown gravy.
If desired, thicken the gravy with corn flour or roux.
Serve the hashed mutton garnished with croutons.
Heat pickled walnuts in the oven to reduce acidity, if using.
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.
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Corn + walnuttop 9% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together349 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
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Mutton + walnuttop 25% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together163 recipes
Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).
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Mutton + corntop 25% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together91 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Swap the walnut
The recipe marks walnut as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mutton, corn):
- Lima beansfits better
- Beansfits better
- Peasfits better
- Walnutthe original
Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, corn. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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