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Lamb Cutlets with Spinach

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Lamb and spinach work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 300 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Lamb Cutlets with Spinach

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the steaks from the lamb loin.

  2. Fry the lamb steaks until cooked to your liking.

  3. Stew the spinach until tender.

  4. Place the stewed spinach in the dish first, then arrange the fried cutlets around it.

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. Lamb + spinachtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together300 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

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