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Lamb Cutlets

Lamb cutlets coated in butter and breadcrumbs, grilled and served around vegetables.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread 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 Cutlets

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the cutlets

  1. Trim and shape the lamb cutlets neatly.

  2. Melt the butter and dip the cutlets in it on both sides.

  3. Sprinkle salt and pepper on the cutlets, then cover them with bread crumbs.

Grill and serve

  1. Grill the cutlets over a clear fire for 5 to 6 minutes, turning them every minute.

  2. Once they feel firm, they are done.

  3. Arrange the vegetables in the center of a hot dish.

  4. Stand the cutlets upright around them.

  5. Add a paper frill to each bone.

  6. Serve immediately.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

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

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

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

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Pepper + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

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

  5. Lamb + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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, which browns and firms as it cooks over direct heat.
Butter
Carries the coating and adds richness and browning as the crumbs cook.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden crust that holds in the juices of the meat.

The step that matters

Grill the cutlets over a clear fire. Turning them every minute lets the coating brown evenly without burning. Firmness shows doneness, so the meat stays juicy rather than dry.

“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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