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Lamb Cutlets Wlth Puree of Mlnt

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Lamb and mint work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 772 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Lamb Cutlets Wlth Puree of Mlnt

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Trim the fat from the neck of lamb.

  2. Cut six neat cutlets, each half an inch thick.

  3. Dredge the cutlets in flour, dip in beaten egg, and coat with breadcrumbs.

  4. Fry the cutlets in boiling lard for five minutes.

  5. Remove the cutlets and place them on a sieve to drain for two minutes.

  6. Serve on an entree dish with Mint Sauce in a sauce-boat.

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. Lamb + minttop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together772 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Flour + eggtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Flour + saucetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,078 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Lamb + flourtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,402 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetaldehyde (pungent, ethereal).

  5. Lamb + saucetop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together925 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanoic acid (soapy, waxy).

Flour and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 106,462 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 mint

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

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Jalapenofits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. Mintthe original

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

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