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Lamb-Chops with Potato, a Favourite Dish

Breaded lamb chops served over mashed potatoes with butter and cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,023 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Lamb-Chops with Potato, a Favourite Dish

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the chops

  1. Cut the back ribs into handsome chops, trimming off the bone.

  2. Season the chops and brush them with a beaten egg.

Cook and serve

  1. Dip the chops in bread crumbs and minced parsley, then fry them until nicely browned.

  2. Place the mashed potatoes in the center of a dish, making them somewhat thin with butter and cream.

  3. Score the mashed potatoes neatly and arrange the hot chops around them, leaning each chop against the next.

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.

Explore the science

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. Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

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

  2. Parsley + potatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,855 recipes

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

  3. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Parsley + oniontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Egg
Beaten egg helps the bread crumbs adhere to the chops as a coating.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, browned crust when fried.
Butter
Adds richness and fat to the mashed potatoes, improving flavor and mouthfeel.
Cream
Thins the mashed potatoes and adds richness and smoothness.

The step that matters

Fry the breaded chops until nicely browned. Breading that is too pale or too dark can result in an uncooked interior or a burnt crust. Browning depends on steady heat, and the crumb coating must be set so it does not fall off during frying.

Swap the onion

The recipe marks onion as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lamb, egg, bread, parsley, potato, butter, cream):

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Leekfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lamb, egg, bread, parsley, potato, butter, cream. 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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