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A Dish Containing a Shank of Lamb

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Lamb and almond work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 121 recipes mention both. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

Contains: tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

  1. Clean the shank of lamb thoroughly.

  2. Prepare the horseradish with the top on.

  3. Combine chervil, mustard, cinnamon, raisins, and almonds in a bowl.

  4. Pound the mixture together to form a paste or mortar.

  5. Serve the shank of lamb with the prepared paste.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Lamb + almondtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together121 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Horseradish + mustardtop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,813 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Cinnamon + raisintop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5,390 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Cinnamon + almondtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,514 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Raisin + almondtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,781 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the chervil

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lamb, horseradish, mustard, cinnamon, raisin, almond):

  1. Nutmegbetter flavor fit
  2. Allspicebetter flavor fit
  3. Clovebetter flavor fit
  4. Chervilthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lamb, horseradish, mustard, cinnamon, raisin, almond. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

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