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Lamb Cutlets, Bread Crumbed, with French Beans and Poor Man’s Sauce

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Lamb and beans work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 158 recipes. Both carry trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Lamb Cutlets, Bread Crumbed, with French Beans and Poor Man’s Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point. The book gives no cooking times either; the times in the steps were added in transcription, so check for doneness rather than trusting the clock.

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).

  2. Season the lamb cutlets with salt and pepper.

  3. Coat the cutlets in bread crumbs.

  4. Place the cutlets on a baking sheet and bake for 15-20 minutes until golden brown.

  5. While the cutlets are baking, prepare the French beans by boiling them until tender.

  6. Serve the lamb cutlets with the French beans and Poor Man’s Sauce.

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 + beanstop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together158 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  3. Bread + beanstop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together332 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Beans + saucetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,184 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

    Shared aroma: decanoic acid (soapy, waxy).

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

Swap the beans

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

  1. Beansthe original
  2. Sesamefits about as well
  3. Peasfits less well
  4. Chickpeafits less well

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

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