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LammsgescliUiige — Lamb's Pluck

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Shallot and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,737 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

LammsgescliUiige — Lamb's Pluck

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Soak the lamb's pluck in cold water.

  2. Place it in a pot with enough cold water to cover it, along with onions and soup herbs.

  3. Simmer for about 2 hours, then let it cool in the broth.

  4. Remove the pluck, slice it into ½ inch thick pieces, and dry the meat.

  5. Dip some slices in egg, coat with grated bread, and fry in butter until golden.

  6. Chop the remaining slices smaller and set aside.

  7. Strain the broth, then thicken it with flour and butter.

  8. Add minced shallot or chives, chopped parsley, fine herbs, white pepper, and coarse sea salt to the broth.

  9. Stir in a handful of bread crumbs and simmer until thick and smooth.

  10. Mix the cut-up meat into the sauce, heat thoroughly, and squeeze lemon juice over before serving.

  11. Serve with or without a garnish of bacon rashers.

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. Shallot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,737 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Flour + shallottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,081 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Onion + shallottop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,431 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Onion + parsleytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lamb, egg, bread, butter, flour, shallot, parsley):

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Leekfits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lamb, egg, bread, butter, flour, shallot, parsley. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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