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Dutch Stew

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,023 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Dutch Stew

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Stew the mutton for 15 minutes.

  2. Add the onions (quartered) and carrot (cut into quarters), and a little salt; stew for 1 hour.

  3. Remove the string from the steak and place it on a dish; arrange the vegetables around it and pour the sauce over.

  4. Heat the dripping in a pot, then slice and gently fry the onions in it.

  5. Wash the mutton and place it in the pot with any water that clings to it; cover tightly and stew for 45 minutes.

  6. Wash the cabbage, remove withered leaves, and cut it into 8 pieces; place in water.

  7. Peel the potatoes and cut them into ½-inch thick slices; place in water.

  8. After 45 minutes, lift the cabbage and potatoes from the water and pack them around the meat.

  9. Sprinkle with salt and pepper, cover tightly, and stew for another 45 minutes.

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. Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

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

  2. Cabbage + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,081 recipes

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

  3. Cabbage + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,001 recipes

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

  4. Cabbage + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together275 recipes

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

  5. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

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

Swap the cabbage

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

  1. Carrotfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Cabbagethe original

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

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