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Baked Lamb Chops Breaded

Breaded lamb chops baked until cooked, served with tomato sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,013 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Baked Lamb Chops Breaded

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C).

Bread the chops

  1. Roll lamb chops in bread crumbs.

  2. Dip the breaded chops in beaten egg.

  3. Roll the chops in bread crumbs again.

  4. Place the chops in a roasting pan.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake for 30 minutes for well-done chops.

  2. Serve with tomato 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. Bread + tomatotop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,013 recipes

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

  2. Lamb + tomatotop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together979 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  3. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Tomato + saucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,469 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

Lamb chops
The main protein, which the coating is applied to and which cooks through in the oven.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, browned coating that helps hold the egg layer on the chops.
Egg
Acts as a binder so the bread crumbs adhere to the chops.

The step that matters

Second bread crumb coating. Rolling the chops in crumbs again after the egg gives a thicker, more even coating. Pressing crumbs on firmly keeps them from falling off during baking.

Swap the tomato

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

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Tomatothe original
  3. Shallotfits about as well
  4. Spinachfits about as well

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