Name: Neck of Mutton
Ingredients: Neck of mutton; Gravy; Turnips; Caper sauce; Tomato sauce

Why it works: Turnip and tomato work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 463 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenol, which smells green, grassy. The science ↓

Neck of Mutton

Ingredients

Directions

Roast the neck of mutton and serve with gravy in the dish.
Alternatively, boil the neck and serve with turnips and a little caper sauce.
For a different option, serve in chops with tomato sauce.

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.

Turnip + tomatotop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together463 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenol (green, grassy).
Sauce + tomatotop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together5,469 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Mutton + tomatotop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together452 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-nonanal (fatty, waxy).
Mutton + turniptop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,558 recipes

Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).
Turnip + saucetop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together943 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).