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Stewed Breast of Lamb

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,458 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Stewed Breast of Lamb

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Add enough white stock to cover the lamb in a pan.

  2. Cover the pan and simmer gently for 45 minutes.

  3. Skim the surface and remove the mace.

  4. Add 1 pint of peas and simmer for another 30 minutes.

  5. Work together butter and flour, then stir into the gravy in small lumps until dissolved.

  6. Simmer for an additional 10 minutes.

  7. Carefully remove the meat and arrange it on a dish.

  8. Pour the sauce over the meat and garnish with potato olives and the remaining boiled peas.

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. Potato + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,458 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Peas + olivetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,066 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-hex-3-en-1-ol (freshly cut grass green and herbaceous notes).

  3. Peas + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,016 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  4. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Butter + potatotop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,456 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, flour, potato, olive):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Chickpeafits better
  3. Cashew nutfits better
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, flour, potato, olive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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