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Grilled Lamb Cutlets

Grilled lamb cutlets coated in butter, egg yolk, and breadcrumbs, then broiled and served with lemon garnish.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Grilled Lamb Cutlets

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the cutlets

  1. Melt the butter in a stewpan, add the lamb cutlets with salt, and stew for 10 minutes without browning the butter.

  2. Remove the cutlets and place them on a napkin to drain.

  3. Pour out the butter, let it cool, and beat it with the egg yolks.

Coat and broil

  1. Dip the cutlets in the egg mixture until well glazed, then coat them with bread crumbs.

  2. Broil the cutlets for 10 minutes over a clear fire.

Serve

  1. Arrange the cutlets in a circle on a dish and garnish with sliced lemon.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Lamb + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together598 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,227 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Lamb cutlets
Provide the main meat, which is gently stewed in butter until tender.
Butter
Carries heat during stewing and, once beaten with egg yolks, adds richness and moisture.
Egg yolks
Bind the mixture and form a glaze that helps the bread crumbs adhere.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp coating that browns under the broiler.

The step that matters

Stewing without browning the butter. If the butter browns during the 10-minute stew, it turns bitter and dark, and the cutlets pick up a burnt flavour. Keeping the heat gentle keeps the butter pale and sweet.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Coconutfits about as well
  2. Figfits about as well
  3. Lemonthe original
  4. Pumpkinfits about as well

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