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Lamb or Kid Pie

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Artichoke and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 636 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Lamb or Kid Pie

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the lamb or kid into slices and season with mushrooms, spices, and sweet herbs.

  2. Optionally, add artichoke bottoms and hard-boiled eggs.

  3. Skin, wash, dry, and flour the meat; fry until light brown in ghee or butter.

  4. Place the fried meat on a sieve before the fire.

  5. In a saucepan, thicken veal gravy with flour and butter over low heat.

  6. Add lemon slice, mushroom ketchup, lemon pickle, nutmeg, and beaten egg yolk mixed with cream.

  7. Stir until hot but do not let it boil to avoid curdling.

  8. Combine the sauce with the fried meat and shake over the fire for 1-2 minutes.

  9. Serve in a very hot dish.

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. Artichoke + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together636 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Artichoke + flourtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together466 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  4. Mushroom + artichoketop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together447 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Lamb + mushroomtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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