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Lamb Cutlets

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,973 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Lamb Cutlets

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Trim the lamb cutlets neatly and beat them thin.

  2. Dip the cutlets in egg and bread crumbs, then fry in ghee until golden brown.

  3. Drain excess fat from the cutlets.

  4. Mash the potatoes and place them in a well-buttered deep-border mold.

  5. Bake the potatoes in the oven for a few minutes, then turn them out onto a round dish.

  6. Fill the center with thick spinach puree and arrange the cutlets around it.

  7. Garnish with parsley and tomatoes, and serve with tomato sauce in a sauceboat.

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. Lemon + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,973 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

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

  4. Thyme + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,585 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Potato + thymetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,586 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lamb, butter, ghee, potato, onion, thyme, pepper):

  1. Limefits about as well
  2. Lemonthe original
  3. Coconutfits about as well
  4. Mangofits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against lamb, butter, ghee, potato, onion, thyme, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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