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Breaded Lamb Chops

Breaded lamb chops coated in seasoned stale bread crumbs and fried.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 22,662 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Breaded Lamb Chops

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Season the grated stale bread with coarse sea salt and black pepper.

  2. Beat the eggs in a bowl until well mixed.

  3. Heat the hot fat in a pan.

Bread and fry

  1. Dip each lamb chop into the beaten eggs, then roll in the seasoned bread crumbs.

  2. Repeat the dipping and rolling for a thicker coating.

  3. Fry the coated chops in the boiling fat until they are a nice brown.

Serve

  1. Serve with currant jelly or grape ketchup.

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

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

  2. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

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

  3. Bread + curranttop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,398 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  4. Egg + curranttop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,734 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Pepper + curranttop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,345 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

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

What each ingredient does

Stale bread
Forms the crisp crumb coating that browns and protects the chop during frying.
Eggs
Act as a binder that helps the crumbs adhere to the chops.

The step that matters

Frying the coated chops. The fat must be hot enough to brown the crumb coating quickly. If it is too cool, the bread absorbs fat and turns greasy before it crisps, and the coating can slip off the meat.

Swap the currant

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

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Red currantfits better
  4. Currantthe original

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