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Stuffed Loin of Lamb

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 15 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 ↓

Stuffed Loin of Lamb

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove the bones from the loin of lamb and wash the meat. Dry it well, then flour and salt it.

  2. Prepare the forcemeat by draining and chopping the mushrooms. Mix them with breadcrumbs, suet, bacon, mint, parsley, lemon, onion, celery salt, pepper, and nutmeg.

  3. Moisten the forcemeat with the egg and a little milk if needed.

  4. Spread the forcemeat evenly over the lamb, roll it up tightly, and tie it with narrow tape at both ends and in the middle.

  5. Roast the lamb, basting frequently, until thoroughly cooked. Glaze after cooling for better appearance.

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. Mint + lemontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,998 recipes

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

  3. Mint + parsleytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,198 recipes

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

  4. Parsley + oniontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 recipes

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

  5. Mushroom + oniontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,626 recipes

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

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lamb, flour, mushroom, veal, mint, parsley, lemon):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Carrotfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lamb, flour, mushroom, veal, mint, parsley, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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