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Lamb Cutlets, Egged and Crumbed

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Cucumber and mint work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 884 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Lamb Cutlets, Egged and Crumbed

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the lamb cutlets by removing any excess fat.

  2. Dip each cutlet in beaten eggs, then coat with breadcrumbs.

  3. Heat lard in a pan until boiling.

  4. Fry the crumbed cutlets in the boiling lard until golden brown.

  5. Remove the cutlets and place them on a sieve to drain for 1-2 minutes.

  6. Serve with fillet of cucumber or Mint 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. Cucumber + minttop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together884 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

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

  3. Lamb + cucumbertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together269 recipes

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

  4. Cucumber + saucetop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,174 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

    Shared aroma: decanoic acid (soapy, waxy).

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

Swap the mint

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

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

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

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