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Lamb Fries

Lamb fries are lamb cuts seasoned, floured, and broiled or fried, served with lemon, parsley, and hot tomato sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and parsley 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 ↓

Lamb Fries

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Skin the lamb fries and cut them into 3 or 4 slices.

  2. In a bowl, season the slices with salt, cayenne, lemon juice, sweet oil, and ground mustard. Mix well.

  3. Roll the seasoned slices lightly in flour.

Cook and serve

  1. Broil the slices for 5 to 8 minutes on each side, or fry them in hot butter.

  2. Serve on a hot platter garnished with lemon slices and parsley, alongside hot tomato sauce.

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. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Pepper + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

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

  5. Mustard + parsleytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,588 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

Lamb fries
Main protein; the slices provide the dish's tender, meaty body once cooked.
Flour
Light dusting that helps the seasoned surface brown and stay slightly crisp when cooked.
Butter
Fat for frying that conducts heat and adds richness and browning to the surface.
Lemon juice
Acidity that brightens the seasoning and cuts the richness of the lamb.

Swap the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lamb, pepper, lemon, flour, butter, parsley, tomato):

  1. Okrafits better
  2. Eggplantfits better
  3. Carrotfits better
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lamb, pepper, lemon, flour, butter, parsley, tomato. 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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