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Mutton or Veal Pie

A pie made with mutton or veal, mushroom ketchup, optional onion and potatoes, baked with a crust.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and potato 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 ↓

Mutton or Veal Pie

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare and bake

  1. Trim the chops of mutton or veal and season them.

  2. Place the chops in a pie dish with a little water and ½ cup of mushroom ketchup.

  3. Add chopped onion and potatoes if desired.

  4. Cover with pie crust.

  5. Bake at 400°F (200°C) until done.

Finish the gravy

  1. Remove the crust with a knife.

  2. Pour out the gravy.

  3. Let it stand.

  4. Skim the fat.

  5. Add more seasoning if needed.

  6. Bring the gravy to a boil.

  7. Pour it back into the pie.

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. Onion + potatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

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

  2. Mushroom + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together968 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Mushroom + oniontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,626 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Mushroom + ketchuptop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,225 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Mutton or veal chops
Provide the meat that becomes tender during slow baking and gives the gravy its rich flavor.
Mushroom ketchup
Adds concentrated savory, umami flavor to the liquid that becomes the gravy.
Pie crust
Encloses the filling so it cooks in its own steam while the crust browns on top.

Swap the onion

The recipe marks onion as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mutton, mushroom, ketchup, potato):

  1. Shallotfits about as well
  2. Capsicumfits about as well
  3. Onionthe original
  4. Tomatofits about as well

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

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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