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Chaudfroid of Lamb or Mutton Chops

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Capers and lettuce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 372 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Chaudfroid of Lamb or Mutton Chops

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the chops to uniform thickness, retaining the bone if desired.

  2. Braise the chops with fine-cut vegetables until tender, then cool in the liquid.

  3. Finish cooling under a weight.

  4. Pare the ice-cold chops neatly and cover with chaudfroid sauce.

  5. Decorate with capers and figures cut from cooked egg white.

  6. Once fixed, cover lightly with aspic jelly and sift cooked egg yolk around the edge.

  7. Dress the chops on heart leaves of lettuce against a vegetable salad macedoine.

  8. Cover the ends of the bones with paper frills.

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. Capers + lettucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together372 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Sauce + caperstop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together678 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Lamb + lettucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together188 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Lamb + caperstop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together86 recipes

    Shared aroma: geraniol (rose, geranium).

  5. Sauce + lettucetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,019 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the lettuce

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lamb, sauce, capers, egg):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Mustardfits better
  3. Welsh onionfits better
  4. Lettucethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lamb, sauce, capers, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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