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Boiled I^ of Mutton , Caper Sauce, Mashed Tondpi^ Carrots^ Potatoes

A boiled mutton served with caper sauce and mashed carrots and potatoes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and potato match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,107 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Boiled I^ of Mutton , Caper Sauce, Mashed Tondpi^ Carrots^ Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare the caper sauce separately.

  2. Peel and chop the carrots and potatoes.

Cook

  1. Boil the mutton until tender.

  2. Boil the carrots and potatoes until soft.

Serve

  1. Serve the mutton with caper sauce and the boiled vegetables.

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. Carrot + potatotop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,107 recipes

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

  2. Mutton + carrottop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,878 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Mutton + potatotop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together293 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Sauce + carrottop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,509 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Sauce + potatotop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,073 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
Provides the main protein, which becomes tender through long simmering in water.
Carrots
Add natural sweetness and a soft, tender texture when boiled.
Potatoes
Add starch that turns soft and fluffy when boiled, filling out the plate.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mutton, sauce, carrot):

  1. Turnipfits better
  2. Tomatofits better
  3. Parsnipfits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, sauce, carrot. 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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