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Mutton-cutlets, with Reform-sauce

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Truffle and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,900 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Mutton-cutlets, with Reform-sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pare the mutton cutlets and season them.

  2. Dip the cutlets into the beaten eggs and roll them in the chopped ox-tongue.

  3. Heat clarified butter in a sauté pan and fry the cutlets on both sides.

  4. Dish the cutlets in a circular order.

  5. Prepare the reform sauce: Pour vinegar into a stewpan, add aromatics, and reduce by one third.

  6. Add brown sauce and melted glaze to the vinegar, and reduce for a few minutes until thickened.

  7. Stir in red-currant jelly until dissolved, then add the montglas mixture and warm without boiling.

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. Truffle + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,900 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  2. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  3. Butter + truffletop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,209 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Vinegar + curranttop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together693 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

  5. Mutton + mushroomtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together685 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mutton, egg, butter, vinegar, sauce, truffle, mushroom):

  1. Red currantfits better
  2. Plumfits better
  3. Grapefits about as well
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, egg, butter, vinegar, sauce, truffle, mushroom. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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