Skip to main content
Main

Lamb Ctjtl-ets and Peas

Lamb cutlets served with green peas and gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Bread and butter 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 Ctjtl-ets and Peas

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the cutlets from a neck of lamb, trimming off most of the fat and all the skin.

  2. Scrape the top part of the bones clean.

Coat and fry

  1. Brush the cutlets with egg, sprinkle with bread crumbs, and season with salt and pepper.

  2. Dip the cutlets in clarified butter, add more bread crumbs, and fry over high heat, turning as needed.

  3. Drain the cutlets and serve with green peas and 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.

Explore the science

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Bread + peastop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together804 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexyl acetate (fruity, apple).

  3. Lamb + peppertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,165 recipes

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

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

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

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

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Lamb cutlets
Provide the main meat, whose fat and bone are trimmed before cooking.
Egg
Acts as a binder so the bread crumbs stick to the cutlets.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden crust when fried in butter.
Clarified butter
Fries the coating, adding browning and rich flavor without burning as quickly as whole butter.

The step that matters

Frying over high heat. The coating must be sealed and browned quickly so the crumbs crisp before the thin lamb cutlets overcook and dry out. Turning as needed promotes even browning.

Swap the peas

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

  1. Peasthe original
  2. Almondfits about as well
  3. Beansfits about as well
  4. Walnutfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against lamb, egg, bread, pepper, butter. 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.

You might also like

Brown BreadBrown Bread461 recipesGreen PeasGreen Peas229 recipesWhite BreadWhite Bread80 recipesBread OmeletteBread Omelette60 recipes