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Lamb Cutlets Broiled

Broiled lamb cutlets coated in egg and breadcrumbs, served with gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Lamb Cutlets Broiled

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Trim the lamb cutlets as you would for mutton cutlets.

  2. Beat the yolks of the eggs with a little warmed butter.

  3. Dip the cutlets in the egg mixture, then coat them in bread crumbs.

Broil and serve

  1. Place the cutlets on a grill over a clear fire.

  2. Cook until done on one side, then turn them over.

  3. Arrange the cutlets on a dish and serve with gravy.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Lamb + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Egg yolks bind the bread crumb coating so it adheres to the cutlets.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, browned coating that protects the lamb during broiling.
Warmed butter
Adds richness and moisture to the egg coating, helping it brown evenly.

The step that matters

Coat the cutlets in bread crumbs. The egg mixture must cling evenly before the crumbs are pressed on. Gaps leave bare meat that dries and scorches over the fire, while a well-coated cutlet browns uniformly and stays juicy inside.

“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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