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Cold Lamb

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Lamb and lettuce work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 188 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Cold Lamb

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Trim the cold cooked lamb into slices.

  2. Garnish with cresses and cool, white lettuce.

  3. Serve chilled on a sultry June day.

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

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

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