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Lamb Chops and Green Peas

A dish of broiled lamb chops served with sautéed green peas.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Lamb and parsley are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,322 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Lamb Chops and Green Peas

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the lamb

  1. Broil the lamb chops.

  2. Garnish the lamb chops with parsley or watercress.

Cook the peas

  1. In a saucepan, melt the butter with salt, white pepper, and sugar.

  2. Add the washed peas and cover the pot.

  3. Shake over high heat for 5 minutes.

  4. Add boiling water and cover again.

  5. Reduce heat to cook slowly until tender, about 25 to 30 minutes for young peas.

  6. Add more water as needed to prevent burning.

  7. Ensure the peas are almost dry when done.

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. Lamb + parsleytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,322 recipes

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

  2. Parsley + peastop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,885 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  3. Lamb + peastop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together650 recipes

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

  4. Parsley + white peppertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  5. Parsley + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together28,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

What each ingredient does

Butter
Melts with the peas to add richness and carry the seasoning.
Sugar
Adds a touch of sweetness that balances the salt and pepper.
Peas
Form the main vegetable, cooking to tenderness in their own steam and added water.

The step that matters

Adding water and controlling the heat. Peas can scorch on the bottom of the pan once the water cooks off. Adding water as needed and cooking slowly keeps them from burning while they become tender.

Swap the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lamb, parsley, butter, sugar, peas):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Mintfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lamb, parsley, butter, sugar, peas. 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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