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Grilled Lamb Chop

A lamb chop grilled in a pan with stock, seasoned with salt, thyme, parsley, and served over mashed potatoes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Thyme and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,057 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Grilled Lamb Chop

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Trim the fat from the lamb chop and roll it round, securing the end with a skewer.

  2. Place the chop on a small plate in a stew pan with a little seasoned stock or water.

Cook and serve

  1. If using water, add Oxo or Lemco, thyme, and parsley for flavor.

  2. Cover the pan and cook for 30 minutes or until the meat is well done.

  3. Serve on a small bed of mashed potatoes, garnished with parsley and a slice of lemon.

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. Thyme + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Thyme + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,973 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Parsley + potatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,855 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Thyme + potatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,586 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Lamb chop
Provides the main meat, which becomes tender and firm as its proteins cook through.
Oxo or lemco
Adds a savoury, meaty flavour to the cooking liquid.
Mashed potatoes
Forms a soft, starchy bed that soaks up the meat juices.

The step that matters

Cover the pan and cook for 30 minutes. Gentle, covered cooking in a little liquid keeps the meat moist. Cooking too long, even covered, can still dry out and toughen the lamb, so check that it is well done without overcooking.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lamb, thyme, parsley, lemon):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Okrafits better
  3. Carrotfits better
  4. Potatothe original

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

“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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