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Brzuded Lamb Chops

Lamb chops dipped in beaten egg, coated in bread or cracker crumbs, and fried in lard, served with mashed potatoes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Brzuded Lamb Chops

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Trim the lamb chops, leaving a bit of bone bare at the ends.

  2. Season the chops with salt and pepper.

  3. Dip each chop in the beaten egg, then coat with bread or cracker crumbs.

Cook and serve

  1. Fry the chops in hot lard until they are a delicate brown.

  2. Serve the chops arranged around a mold of mashed and browned potatoes, garnished with curled parsley.

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

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

  2. Potato + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,855 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

  4. Lamb + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together520 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Lamb + parsleytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,322 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Lamb chops
Forms the main meat, which is cooked through while the coating browns.
Beaten egg
Acts as a binder so the crumbs adhere to the chops.
Bread or cracker crumbs
Form a crisp, browned coating when fried.
Lard
Conducts heat for frying and encourages browning of the crumb coating.

The step that matters

Frying the breaded chops in hot lard. The fat must be hot enough to brown the crumb coating quickly; if it is too cool, the crumbs absorb grease and turn soggy before the chop is cooked through.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Asparagusfits about as well
  2. Spinachfits about as well
  3. Carrotfits about as well
  4. Potatothe original

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