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Mutton-stew, Turkish Fashion

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Beans and kidney beans match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 364 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Mutton-stew, Turkish Fashion

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the mutton into medium-sized squares.

  2. In an earthen stewpan, heat a little clarified butter and fry the meat for 10-12 minutes.

  3. Remove the meat and add fresh vegetables to the stewpan.

  4. Season the vegetables and fry them for 10 minutes.

  5. Remove the vegetables from the center of the stewpan and proceed with the recipe.

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. Beans + kidney beanstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together364 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  2. Carrot + beanstop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,443 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  3. Beans + peastop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together949 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  4. Carrot + oniontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together21,601 recipes

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

  5. Peas + pumpkintop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together89 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

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

Swap the kidney beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mutton, butter, carrot, onion, beans, peas, pumpkin):

  1. Lima beansfits better
  2. Chickpeafits better
  3. Lentilsfits better
  4. Kidney beansthe original

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

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