Name: Lamb, Roast Forequarter
Ingredients: Forequarter of lamb; Mint sauce

Why it works: Lamb and mint work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 772 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Lamb, Roast Forequarter

Ingredients

Forequarter of lamb
Mint sauce

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Preheat your oven to 350°F (175°C).
Place the forequarter of lamb in a roasting pan.
Roast for 1 to 2 hours, depending on the size of the lamb.
Serve with gravy made from the drippings in the roasting pan and mint sauce.

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.

Lamb + minttop 12% of all pairs

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Cooked together772 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Lamb + saucetop 21% of all pairs

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Cooked together925 recipes

Shared aroma: decanoic acid (soapy, waxy).
Mint + saucetop 32% of all pairs

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Cooked together568 recipes