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Lamb Pie

A pie made with lamb chops, pepper, salt, new potatoes, and water, baked in a pie dish.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,305 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Lamb Pie

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the lamb into chops, ensuring they are not too fatty.

  2. Season the chops lightly with pepper and salt.

Assemble and bake

  1. Layer the chops in a pie dish with sliced new potatoes.

  2. Pour in a little water.

  3. Cover the dish and bake as directed for rump steak pie.

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

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

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

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Lamb
Provides the main meat, and its fat and juices give the pie its rich flavour.
New potatoes
Form a starchy layer that soaks up the cooking juices and adds body.

The step that matters

Cover the dish and bake as directed for rump steak pie. Covering the dish traps steam, which keeps the lamb moist and helps it become tender during baking. Lifting the cover too early lets moisture escape and can leave the meat dry.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Capsicumfits about as well
  2. Spinachfits about as well
  3. Eggplantfits about as well
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lamb, pepper. 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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