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Lamb Cutlets, a LA Chevreuse

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Why it works: Truffle and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,900 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Lamb Cutlets, a LA Chevreuse

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the lamb cutlets without trimming them.

  2. Braize the cutlets as you would veal cutlets.

  3. Once cooked, press and trim the cutlets.

  4. Mask the cutlets with a puree of onions mixed with Parmesan cheese.

  5. Dip the cold cutlets in beaten egg, then roll in bread crumbs.

  6. Shape the cutlets with a knife and arrange them on a dish.

  7. Fry the cutlets in heated hog's lard until bright yellow.

  8. Dish up the cutlets and place a small paper frill on each bone.

  9. Fill the center with small circular scallops of truffles, mushrooms, and fat livers tossed in Supreme sauce.

  10. Pour some of the sauce around the base and serve.

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. Truffle + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,900 recipes

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

  2. Parmesan cheese + mushroomtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,199 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  3. Bread + mushroomtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

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

  4. Lamb + mushroomtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together450 recipes

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

  5. Parmesan cheese + truffletop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together140 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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