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Lamb Chops, Broiled

Broiled lamb chops seasoned with salt, pepper, and garnished with parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Lamb Chops, Broiled

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Trim the lamb chops, removing excess fat.

  2. Preheat a grill over a clear fire.

Cook and serve

  1. Place the chops on the grill and brown them nicely on both sides.

  2. Season with coarse sea salt and black pepper.

  3. Serve hot, garnished with parsley.

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 + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Lamb + parsleytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,322 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  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 chops
Provide the main protein, which browns on the grill to develop savory flavor and a crisp surface.

The step that matters

Browning the chops on both sides. Searing over high direct heat drives the Maillard reaction, creating browned flavor and aroma on the surface. Too little heat or moisture on the surface leads to grey, steamed meat instead of a good crust.

Swap the parsley

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

  1. Parsleythe original
  2. Rosemaryfits about as well
  3. Cuminfits less well
  4. Corianderfits less well

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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