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Breaded Lamb Fillets

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and cucumber are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,405 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Breaded Lamb Fillets

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the lamb fillets as you would for sautéed fillets.

  2. Dip each fillet in bread crumbs, then in beaten eggs, and again in bread crumbs.

  3. Fry the fillets in deep oil until golden brown, then drain on paper towels.

  4. For variety, shape the fillets like chops and insert a 1.5-inch piece of macaroni in each to represent bones.

  5. Serve with Tomato Sauce or Fried Cucumbers.

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. Tomato + cucumbertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,405 recipes

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

  2. Bread + tomatotop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,013 recipes

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

  3. Lamb + tomatotop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together979 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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

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

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

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

Swap the cucumber

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lamb, bread, egg, tomato, sauce):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Eggplantfits about as well
  4. Cucumberthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lamb, bread, egg, tomato, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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