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Mayonnaise of Frozen Lamb

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Lamb and tomato work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 979 recipes. Both carry trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Mayonnaise of Frozen Lamb

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the cold neck of lamb into cutlets and trim them neatly.

  2. Dip each cutlet in mayonnaise sauce mixed with a little cold melted aspic jelly.

  3. Sprinkle the cutlets alternately with minced ham and gherkin.

  4. Arrange the cutlets on a border of chopped aspic jelly with a fresh salad in the center.

  5. Garnish the base with sliced tomatoes and picked watercress.

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

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

  2. Tomato + watercresstop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together158 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Sauce + tomatotop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,469 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Lamb + hamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together160 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  5. Lamb + watercresstop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42 recipes

    Shared aroma: geraniol (rose, geranium).

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

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lamb, sauce, ham, watercress):

  1. Mustardfits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Horseradishfits better
  4. Tomatothe original

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

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