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Lamb Cutlets with Asparagus Peas

Lamb cutlets coated in bread crumbs and baked with asparagus peas.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 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 ↓

Lamb Cutlets with Asparagus Peas

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

  1. Trim the lamb cutlets as needed.

  2. Make fine bread crumbs from the stale bread by rubbing through a wire sieve.

  3. In a bowl, beat the whole eggs and yolks, then add pepper, salt, and clarified butter.

Coat and bake

  1. Dip each cutlet into the egg mixture, allowing excess to drip off.

  2. Coat each cutlet in the bread crumbs.

  3. Butter a sauté pan and place a round of buttered paper in it.

  4. Arrange the cutlets in the pan and cover with another round of buttered paper.

  5. Bake in a 400°F (200°C) oven for 2-3 minutes until firm and white.

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. Lamb + peppertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,165 recipes

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

  3. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  4. Lamb + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together598 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Lamb cutlets
Provide the main meat, which is cooked quickly so the coating sets while the inside stays tender.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden crust that protects the cutlet during cooking.
Eggs
Bind the crumbs to the meat and set to a firm coating in the oven.
Clarified butter
Adds richness and helps the coating brown and cook evenly.

The step that matters

Baking the coated cutlets. Egg proteins set firm at moderate heat, so a short bake at the stated temperature firms the coating without drying the meat. Overbaking toughens the lamb and can scorch the crumbs.

“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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