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Lamb a LA Sudhalle

Roasted lamb served with spinach puree, carrot, turnip, cucumber, and Café Sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and turnip match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,002 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Lamb a LA Sudhalle

Ingredients

Directions

Roast and carve

  1. Roast the loin of lamb in the usual way.

  2. Cut the lamb into pieces and arrange them in a crown shape on a hot dish.

Decorate and serve

  1. Use a piping bag to decorate the dish with spinach puree between the pieces of meat.

  2. Braise fancy shapes of carrot, turnip, and cucumber in the center.

  3. Pour a little Café Sauce over the lamb and serve more sauce separately.

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.

Explore the science

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. Carrot + turniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,002 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Spinach + turniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together320 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Spinach + cucumbertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together355 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  4. Turnip + cucumbertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together226 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Spinach + carrottop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together870 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

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

Swap the cucumber

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

  1. Parsnipfits better
  2. Beetrootfits better
  3. Lettucefits better
  4. Cucumberthe original

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

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