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Roast Mutton with Tomatoes

A roast mutton dish cooked with tomatoes, bread crumbs, butter, and seasonings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Roast Mutton with Tomatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mutton

  1. Wash the hindquarter of mutton and rub it with salt and pepper.

  2. Place the mutton in a baking dish with 1 pint of water.

  3. Baste the mutton well.

Stuff the tomatoes

  1. Slit the tomatoes into four without severing them completely.

  2. Remove some seeds from the tomatoes.

  3. Make a stuffing with bread crumbs, pepper, salt, butter, and a pinch of sugar. Mix the stuffing well.

  4. Fill the tomatoes with the stuffing.

Roast and serve

  1. Place the stuffed tomatoes in the baking dish with the mutton.

  2. Roast the dish together.

  3. Serve the tomatoes around the mutton. Pour gravy over the tomatoes.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Pepper + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

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

  3. Tomato + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,013 recipes

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

  4. Mutton + breadtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,488 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Mutton + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,442 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
Provides the main meat, which becomes tender and juicy as it roasts slowly.
Tomatoes
Soften as they roast, adding moisture and a tangy, sweet flavour to the dish.
Bread crumbs
Absorb butter and tomato juices in the stuffing, giving it a soft, moist body.
Butter
Adds richness and fat to the stuffing, helping it brown and carry flavour.

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mutton, pepper, bread, butter, sugar):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Leekfits about as well
  3. Potatofits about as well
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, pepper, bread, butter, sugar. 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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