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Mutton Rumps and Kidneys

A stew of mutton rumps and kidneys served with rice, onions, and spices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Clove and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 17,451 recipes. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

Mutton Rumps and Kidneys

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the rumps

  1. Stew the mutton rumps in good mutton gravy for 1 hour.

  2. Remove the rumps and let them cool.

  3. Strain the gravy to remove fat.

  4. Add boiled rice, onion with cloves, and mace.

  5. Boil until the rice thickens.

Coat and cook

  1. Wash the rumps with beaten egg yolks.

  2. Coat the rumps with bread crumbs, pepper, salt, parsley, thyme, and lemon peel.

  3. Fry the rumps in butter until golden brown.

  4. Remove excess fat.

  5. Lard the kidneys.

  6. Roast them in a Dutch oven.

Serve

  1. Warm the rice in the pan.

  2. Serve the rice on a dish.

  3. Arrange the rumps around it with narrow ends towards the center.

  4. Place the kidneys in between.

  5. Garnish with halved hard-boiled eggs or assorted pickles.

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. Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  2. Clove + macetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,400 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

  3. Rice + oniontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,433 recipes

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

  4. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

  5. Rice + peppertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,379 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Mutton rumps
Stewing in gravy and then frying gives them a tender interior and a browned, crisp coating.
Egg yolks
Beaten yolks act as a binding wash that helps the bread crumb coating adhere to the rumps.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden crust when fried in butter.
Boiled rice
Thickens the strained gravy into a starchy base that the rumps are served on.
Butter
Adds fat and richness and helps the coated rumps brown evenly in the pan.
Kidneys
Larding adds fat that keeps the kidneys moist during roasting.

The step that matters

Frying the coated rumps in butter until golden brown. Butter browns quickly and can burn if the heat is too high, leaving the crumb coating bitter before the meat is heated through. Moderate heat lets the crust brown evenly.

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mutton, rice, onion, clove, egg, bread, pepper):

  1. Turmericfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, rice, onion, clove, egg, bread, pepper. 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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