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Lamb Cutlets and Gbeen Peas

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Mushroom and peas work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 890 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Lamb Cutlets and Gbeen Peas

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Trim the lamb cutlets nicely and fry them carefully.

  2. When almost cold, dip each cutlet up to the bone in stiff Allemande sauce flavored with mushrooms.

  3. Set each cutlet flat on a baking tin or dish on rough ice to help the sauce set firmly.

  4. Brush the cutlets with egg yolk and coat them with bread crumbs.

  5. Fry the cutlets slightly again in boiling lard.

  6. Arrange the cutlets around a pyramid of green peas and pour white sauce around the base.

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. Mushroom + peastop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together890 recipes

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

  2. Mushroom + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Bread + peastop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together804 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexyl acetate (fruity, apple).

  4. Lamb + mushroomtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  5. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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 (lamb, sauce, mushroom, egg, bread):

  1. Peasthe original
  2. Beansfits about as well
  3. Sesamefits about as well
  4. Chestnutfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against lamb, sauce, mushroom, egg, bread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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