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Lamb Sandwiches

A sandwich made with cold chopped lamb, fresh mint sauce, optional salad dressing, and buttered bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Lamb and mint work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 772 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Lamb Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a bowl, mix the cold chopped lamb with fresh mint sauce.

  2. Add a little salad dressing if desired.

  3. Spread the mixture on thin slices of buttered bread.

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 + minttop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together772 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  3. Mint + breadtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together244 recipes

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

  4. Lamb + saucetop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together925 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanoic acid (soapy, waxy).

  5. Sauce + breadtop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,934 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Cold chopped lamb
Provides the main filling and protein, with a firm, tender texture once mixed.
Fresh mint sauce
Adds moisture and a bright, sharp mint flavour that cuts through the rich meat.
Thin slices of buttered bread
Acts as the base that holds the filling, with butter adding richness and moisture barrier.

Swap the mint

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

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Garlicfits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. Mintthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lamb, sauce, bread. 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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