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99 Cutlets of Lamb

Lamb cutlets seasoned with salt, breaded, sautéed, and baked, served with optional garnish.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 30 ingredients
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Why it works: Peas and asparagus match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 808 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

99 Cutlets of Lamb

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the chops

  1. Cut the rack of lamb into chops and trim the chops.

  2. Season the chops with coarse sea salt.

Cook and serve

  1. Bread the chops.

  2. Sauté the chops until lightly browned.

  3. Spread one side with forcemeat or D'Uxelles dressing.

  4. Finish in a 400°F (200°C) oven until cooked through.

  5. Serve with a garnish of green peas or any preferred sides.

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. Peas + asparagustop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together808 recipes

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

  2. Asparagus + cucumbertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together203 recipes

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

  3. Peas + cucumbertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together629 recipes

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

  4. Asparagus + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together400 recipes

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

  5. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Rack of lamb
Forms the chops, providing the main meat and its fat for flavor and juiciness.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, browned crust on the chops during sautéing and finishing.
Forcemeat or d'uxelles dressing
Adds a moist, savory layer that flavors the cutlet as it cooks.

The step that matters

Finish in the oven until cooked through. Lamb chops can dry out or overcook quickly, so the internal temperature should be checked to keep them juicy while fully cooked.

Swap the cucumber

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lamb, bread, peas, asparagus, mushroom, butter, sauce):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Tomatofits better
  4. Cucumberthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lamb, bread, peas, asparagus, mushroom, butter, sauce. 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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