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Hashed Mutton

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Sauce and ketchup match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,099 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Hashed Mutton

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the cold mutton into evenly sized slices, removing all fat, skin, and bone.

  2. Melt the butter in a large saucepan over medium heat, then add the minced shallots and flour, stirring for 5 minutes until browned.

  3. Add the stock, salt, whole pepper, clove, allspice, bouquet garni, walnut ketchup, and tomato sauce. Stir until boiling.

  4. Boil for 5 minutes, then strain the sauce into another saucepan and let it cool.

  5. Once cooled, add the mutton slices to the sauce.

  6. Heat the saucepan over low heat, shaking occasionally without boiling.

  7. Serve the hashed mutton with fried bread sippets.

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. Sauce + ketchuptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,099 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Shallot + walnuttop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together440 recipes

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

  3. Tomato + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

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

  4. Shallot + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,898 recipes

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

  5. Shallot + tomatotop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together583 recipes

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

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

Swap the walnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (shallot, mutton, tomato, sauce, butter, ketchup, pepper):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Peasfits about as well
  3. Chestnutfits about as well
  4. Walnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against shallot, mutton, tomato, sauce, butter, ketchup, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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