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Breaded Lamb Chops

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Lamb and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,165 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Breaded Lamb Chops

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Trim the lamb chops neatly and flatten them with the side of a hatchet.

  2. Season with coarse sea salt and black pepper.

  3. Dip the chops into the beaten egg, then coat with cracker crumbs.

  4. Fry in hot cooking fat, turning when the bottom is done.

  5. Drain excess fat and serve on a dish, overlapping the chops with a wall of fried potatoes around them.

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

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

  2. Lamb + eggtop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,204 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + eggtop 33% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together50,580 recipes

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

  4. Egg + fried potatotop 49% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together0 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

  5. Lamb + fried potatotop 56% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together0 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

Pepper and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 50,580 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

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