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Mock Duck

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Sage and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,628 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Mock Duck

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Bone the shoulder of mutton.

  2. Fill the spaces with stuffing.

  3. Fasten with skewers and string.

  4. Roast for about 1.5 hours, depending on size.

  5. Serve with thick gravy.

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. Sage + oniontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,628 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

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

  3. Mutton + sagetop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together107 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

Swap the sage

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

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Cuminfits better
  3. Pepperfits better
  4. Sagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, onion. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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