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Sheep or Lambs' Trotters

Stuffed lamb or sheep trotters simmered, then boiled and glazed, served with soubise or tomato sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Sauce and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,338 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Sheep or Lambs' Trotters

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Stew the trotters for several hours until the bones can be removed.

  2. Save the cooking liquid and do not break the skin of the trotters.

  3. Stuff the trotters with the quenelles or forcemeat.

Cook and serve

  1. Return the stuffed trotters to the saved stock and boil for about 15 minutes.

  2. Glaze the trotters.

  3. Serve with soubise sauce or tomato sauce.

  4. Alternatively, fry the trotters in butter.

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. Sauce + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15,338 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Lamb + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Lamb + saucetop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together925 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanoic acid (soapy, waxy).

Sauce and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 15,338 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

What each ingredient does

Sheep or lamb trotters
Provide the main body of the dish, with gelatin-rich skin and bones that give body to the stock.
Quenelles or forcemeat
Fill the trotters, adding a soft, rich texture that contrasts with the tender meat.
Butter
Adds fat and richness and helps brown the trotters when they are fried.

The step that matters

Return the stuffed trotters to the saved stock and boil for about 15 minutes. Boiling too hard can break the skin and let the stuffing leak out. A gentle simmer keeps the trotters intact while the filling cooks through.

“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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