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Lamb Cutlets, Grilled

Grilled lamb cutlets served with mashed potatoes, green peas, and hot gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Lamb and mutton work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 598 recipes. Both carry trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Lamb Cutlets, Grilled

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the required number of cutlets from the best end of a neck and trim them neatly.

  2. Rub a gridiron with mutton or lamb fat and place it over a clear fire.

Cook and season

  1. Cook the cutlets for 5 to 10 minutes, turning them every minute.

  2. Season well with coarse sea salt and black pepper.

Plate and serve

  1. Put a paper frill on each cutlet bone and arrange them in a circle on a border of mashed potatoes.

  2. Fill the center with cooked green peas and pour a little hot gravy around the base of the dish before serving.

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. Lamb + muttontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together598 recipes

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

  2. Potato + peastop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,016 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

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

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

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 renders and browns on the hot grill.
Mutton or lamb fat
Greases the gridiron so the cutlets do not stick and gain a little flavour.
Mashed potatoes
Form a soft base that supports the cutlets and adds a mild, creamy contrast.
Hot gravy
Adds moisture and savoury flavour to the plate.

The step that matters

Turning the cutlets every minute over the fire. Frequent turning cooks the cutlets evenly and helps prevent the outside from scorching before the centre is cooked through. Sear quickly over a clear, hot fire so the surface browns and the juices stay inside.

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lamb, mutton, pepper, potato):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Peasthe original
  3. Chickpeafits about as well
  4. Lentilsfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against lamb, mutton, pepper, potato. 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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