Name: Lamb Cutlets and Green Peas
Ingredients: lamb cutlets; breadcrumbs; 1 egg white; green peas

Why it works: Lamb and peas work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 650 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Lamb Cutlets and Green Peas

Ingredients

lamb cutlets
breadcrumbs
1 egg white
green peas

Directions

Dip the lamb cutlets in egg white, then coat them in breadcrumbs.
Boil the green peas until tender.
Pile the peas in the center of a serving dish.
Arrange the cutlets around the peas with the broad end on the dish and the bone end facing upwards.

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.

Lamb + peastop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together650 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
Egg + peastop 22% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,065 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-octenal (fatty, green).
Lamb + eggtop 27% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,204 recipes

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