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Mutton Collops

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Mutton Collops

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut and trim the mutton into collops the size of a teacup.

  2. Flatten each collop and spread forcemeat on both sides.

  3. Fry the collops until cooked through.

  4. Prepare the potatoes, Jerusalem artichokes, and bread in the same manner and fry them.

  5. Layer the collops, potatoes, artichokes, and bread alternately in a dish.

  6. Serve with a simple gravy or hot and dry on a napkin, garnished with fried parsley and lemon slices.

  7. For the knuckle, cover it with water, season, and simmer until thoroughly cooked.

  8. Thicken the gravy with prepared barley and flavor with lemon pickle or capers.

  9. Color the gravy slightly with saffron and serve with celery sauce or a purée of turnips.

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. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Lemon + saffrontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together538 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Parsley + saffrontop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together380 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Potato + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,855 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Potato + barleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together165 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

Swap the jerusalem artichoke

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mutton, potato, bread, parsley, lemon, barley, saffron):

  1. Leekfits better
  2. Carrotfits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Jerusalem artichokethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, potato, bread, parsley, lemon, barley, saffron. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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