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To Fricassee Lamb-stones

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

To Fricassee Lamb-stones

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Blanch, parboil, and slice the lamb-stones.

  2. If the sweetbreads are thick, cut them in half and flour them.

  3. Fry the lamb-stones, sweetbreads, and oysters in butter until golden brown.

  4. Pour off the butter and add the gravy, asparagus tops, nutmeg, pepper, salt, and shallots or chives.

  5. Simmer for 10 minutes.

  6. Mix a little gravy with the beaten egg yolks, then gradually combine with the rest of the gravy.

  7. Return the mixture to the pan and stir until thickened, without boiling.

  8. Garnish with lemon 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. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Nutmeg + shallottop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,019 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Nutmeg + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,318 recipes

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

  4. Shallot + lemontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,523 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Pepper + nutmegtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together13,015 recipes

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

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

Swap the shallot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lamb, pepper, nutmeg, white wine, lemon, egg, butter):

  1. Spinachfits about as well
  2. Asparagusfits about as well
  3. Shallotthe original
  4. Capsicumfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against lamb, pepper, nutmeg, white wine, lemon, egg, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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