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Broiled Lamb Chops

Broiled lamb chops seasoned with salt and pepper, served with parsley garnish.

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 ↓

Broiled Lamb Chops

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Order lamb chops based on the number you need, averaging three to four per pound.

  2. Season the chops with coarse sea salt and black pepper.

Broil and serve

  1. Place the chops on the broiler under moderate heat (350°F / 175°C) until well browned.

  2. Garnish with parsley before serving.

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
The main protein; broiling browns its surface, adding savory flavor through the Maillard reaction.

The step that matters

Broil until well browned. Browning comes from the Maillard reaction on the surface, which builds savory flavor. Too little heat or time leaves the chops pale and bland, while too much can dry or char the thin edges before the centre is cooked.

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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