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Shoulder of Lamb Glaized

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Sorrel and tarragon share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 75 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Shoulder of Lamb Glaized

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Bone the shoulder of lamb and season it with pepper, coarse sea salt, mushroom powder, and beaten spice.

  2. Fill the cavity with light forcemeat and sew it up, shaping it like a leg of lamb.

  3. Blanch the lamb, then braise it in a little stock and bards of bacon fat.

  4. Once cooked, wipe it dry, glaze it, and serve with sorrel sauce or strong cullis sauce with a splash of tarragon vinegar.

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. Sorrel + tarragontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together75 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Pepper + tarragontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,399 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Tarragon + vinegartop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,547 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Pepper + sorreltop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together419 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Pepper + mushroomtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,580 recipes

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

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

Swap the tarragon

The recipe marks tarragon as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lamb, pepper, mushroom, sorrel, vinegar):

  1. Tarragonthe original
  2. Parsleyfits about as well
  3. Garlicfits about as well
  4. Thymefits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against lamb, pepper, mushroom, sorrel, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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