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A dish of sliced mutton coated in flour and cooked with onion, water, gravy, pepper, salt, and ketchup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 68,474 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

To Hash Mutton

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut thin slices of dressed mutton.

  2. Flour the slices.

Make the hash

  1. Boil a little onion in 2-3 tablespoons of water.

  2. Add the boiled onion, a little gravy, and the seasoned meat to the pan.

  3. Heat the mixture but do not let it boil.

Serve

  1. Serve in a covered dish.

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

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

  2. Flour + ketchuptop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,435 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Mutton + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,442 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Flour + oniontop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together32,460 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Mutton + oniontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,531 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Dressed mutton
Provides the meat that forms the body of the hash.
Flour
Coats the meat slices, helping the gravy thicken and cling to them.
Onion
Adds savoury flavour and aroma to the hash.
Gravy
Supplies moisture and savoury richness that binds the hash together.

The step that matters

Heat the mixture but do not let it boil. Boiling toughens meat proteins and can make the floured coating break up or turn lumpy, so gentle heating keeps the meat tender and the sauce smooth.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mutton, flour, pepper, ketchup):

  1. Turnipfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, flour, pepper, ketchup. 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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