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Lamb's Hearts, Fricasseed

Lamb hearts stuffed with veal, coated in flour, baked, sliced, stewed with tomato and mushroom garnish.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,719 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Lamb's Hearts, Fricasseed

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. Soak the lamb's hearts in cold water.

  2. Fill the cavities with veal stuffing and coat with flour.

Bake and stew

  1. Bake in a moderate oven at 350°F (175°C) for 45 minutes.

  2. Slice the hearts neatly.

  3. Thicken the gravy.

  4. Place the slices in a pan.

  5. Stew gently for 15 minutes.

Serve

  1. Arrange on a dish with fried tomato slices and chopped mushrooms.

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. Tomato + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,719 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

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

  3. Lamb + mushroomtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together450 recipes

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

  4. Veal + mushroomtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,446 recipes

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

  5. Lamb + vealtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together568 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Lamb's hearts
Form the main body of the dish, providing the meat that is sliced and stewed.
Flour
Coats the hearts and helps thicken the gravy as it cooks.
Veal stuffing
Fills the cavities, adding flavour and moisture to the hearts during baking.

The step that matters

Stew gently for 15 minutes. Gentle heat keeps the sliced meat tender and prevents the thickened gravy from scorching or boiling hard, which would toughen the meat and break the sauce.

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lamb, veal, flour, mushroom):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lamb, veal, flour, mushroom. 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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