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Epigram of Lamb

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Why it works: Lamb and chicory work together. They rank in the top 23% of all ingredient pairs, and 4 recipes mention both. Both carry geraniol, which smells rose, geranium. The science ↓

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Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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Recipe from a historical cookbook.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Lamb + chicorytop 23% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together4 recipes

    Shared aroma: geraniol (rose, geranium).

  2. Butter + breadtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,145 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Olive + breadtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together999 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Lamb + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,391 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Lamb + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,165 recipes

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

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