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Lamb Hash

A dish of finely chopped roast lamb and boiled potatoes cooked with butter and bouillon, seasoned with salt and parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and parsley are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,855 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Lamb Hash

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Melt the butter in a chafing dish.

  2. Mix the lamb and potatoes with the bouillon.

  3. Add the mixture to the chafing dish.

  4. Cook over an open fire until warmed through.

  5. Season to taste and sprinkle with parsley before serving.

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. Potato + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,855 recipes

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

  2. Lamb + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together520 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  3. Lamb + parsleytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,322 recipes

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

  4. Butter + potatotop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,456 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  5. Butter + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together28,563 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Cold roast lamb
Provides the main protein and savory meaty flavor of the hash.
Cold boiled potatoes
Supply starch and bulk, giving the hash its body and soft texture.
Butter
Adds richness and fat for flavor and helps the hash brown in the pan.
Bouillon
Adds moisture and savory broth flavor that binds the lamb and potatoes.

The step that matters

Cook over an open fire until warmed through. Heating gently and evenly keeps the lamb and potatoes moist and tender. Overheating dries out the meat and can toughen it, so the hash should be warmed through without scorching.

Swap the parsley

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

  1. Parsleythe original
  2. Garlicfits about as well
  3. Rosemaryfits less well
  4. Thymefits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, lamb, potato. 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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