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Crown Op Lamb

A roasted lamb dish with bones tied in a circle and covered in salt pork.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pork and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,668 recipes. Both carry sotolon, which smells curry, maple. The science ↓

Crown Op Lamb

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Arrange 12 uncut lamb chops in a circle, using two loins.

  2. Have the butcher chop through the bones only.

  3. Cover the bones with oiled paper to prevent scorching.

  4. Trim the bones and tie them in a circle with the meat inside and bones standing up.

Bake and serve

  1. Cover the bones with pieces of salt pork, then dust with pepper and coarse sea salt.

  2. Bake for 1 hour or more, basting often.

  3. Press cooked potatoes through a potato ricer, or fill with peas before serving.

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.

Explore the science

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. Pork + potatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,668 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  2. Lamb + porktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together623 recipes

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

  3. Potato + peastop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,016 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  4. Pepper + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

  5. Lamb + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together520 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Lamb chops
Form the crown's meat, which cooks through as the roast bakes.
Salt pork
Adds fat that bastes the bones and meat as it renders during baking.
Potatoes
Pressed through a ricer, they form a fluffy garnish or filling for the roast.

The step that matters

Covering the bones with oiled paper. Exposed bone tips can scorch in the oven. The oiled paper shields them from direct heat during the long bake, while the meat cooks.

Swap the peas

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

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Sesamefits better
  3. Peanutfits better
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lamb, pepper, pork, potato. 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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