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Deviled Spring Lamb Chops

A lamb chop dish seasoned with salt, pepper, mustard, and butter, seared and roasted.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and mustard are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,430 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Deviled Spring Lamb Chops

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. The book gives no cooking times either; the times in the steps were added in transcription, so check for doneness rather than trusting the clock.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. Season the lamb chops with salt and pepper.

  3. Spread a thin layer of mustard on each chop.

Sear and roast

  1. Melt butter in a skillet over medium heat.

  2. Sear the chops for 3-4 minutes on each side until browned.

  3. Transfer the chops to the oven and roast for 10-15 minutes until cooked to your liking.

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. Pepper + mustardtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,430 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

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

  3. Lamb + mustardtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together229 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, creamy).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Pepper + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Spring lamb chops
Provide the main meat, which browns on the outside while staying tender inside.
Mustard
Adds a sharp, tangy flavor and a coating that helps the surface brown.
Butter
Conducts heat in the skillet and adds richness and browning to the chops.

The step that matters

Searing the chops. Searing over medium heat browns the surface through the Maillard reaction, building flavor before the chops finish in the oven. Pat the chops dry first so they brown rather than steam.

Swap the mustard

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

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lamb, pepper, butter. 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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