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Broiled Shoulder of Lamb

A roasted lamb shoulder served with butter, bread sauce, and green peas.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Broiled Shoulder of Lamb

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove the shoulder blade from the lamb.

  2. Season the lamb well with coarse sea salt and black pepper.

Cook and serve

  1. Broil the lamb over a slow fire, turning often to prevent burning.

  2. When done, add butter on top.

  3. Serve with bread sauce and a garnish of green peas.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Bread + peastop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together804 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexyl acetate (fruity, apple).

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

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

  4. Lamb + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together598 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Lamb + peastop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together650 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Lamb shoulder
Provides the rich, meaty base that the whole dish is built around.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture to the surface of the cooked meat.
Bread sauce
Adds a soft, moist texture that balances the richness of the lamb.

The step that matters

Broil over a slow fire, turning often. Turning often keeps the surface from scorching before the inside is cooked through. Broiling over a slow fire gives gentler heat, so the outside browns without burning. Frequent turning spreads the heat evenly across the meat.

Swap the peas

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

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Almondfits about as well
  3. Peasthe original
  4. Sesamefits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against lamb, pepper, butter, bread, 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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