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To Fry a Loin of Lamb

A simple fried lamb chop dish seasoned with egg yolk and bread crumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter 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 ↓

To Fry a Loin of Lamb

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the loin of lamb into chops.

  2. Rub each chop on both sides with the egg yolk.

  3. Sprinkle bread crumbs over the chops.

  4. Season with salt and pepper.

Fry

  1. Heat butter or oil in a pan and fry the chops until golden brown.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Lamb + peppertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,165 recipes

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

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

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

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

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Loin of lamb
Is the meat itself, cut into chops that cook through and brown on the surface.
Egg yolk
Acts as a binder that helps the bread crumbs adhere to the chops.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating that browns when fried.

The step that matters

Frying the chops until golden brown. Frying in hot butter or oil browns the coating through the Maillard reaction, which builds flavour and colour. Too low a heat makes the crumbs soak up fat and turn greasy, while the chops may stay pale.

“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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