Why it works: Sauce and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,338 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓
Entrees' of Lamb
Ingredients
Directions
Insert a small piece of bone into each cutlet.
Coat the cutlets with Allemande sauce, then dip in beaten egg, and bread-crumb them again.
Heat clarified butter in a sauté pan.
Fry the cutlets in the sauté pan until done.
Glaze the cutlets lightly and arrange them alternately on a serving dish.
Fill the center with white Toulouse ragout and pour Espagnole half-glaze around the entree.
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.
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Sauce + buttertop 15% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together15,338 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together118,967 recipes
Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
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Lamb + buttertop 17% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together2,232 recipes
Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
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Lamb + saucetop 21% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together925 recipes
Shared aroma: decanoic acid (soapy, waxy).
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Lamb + eggtop 27% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together1,204 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Sauce and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 15,338 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.
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