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Lamb Cutlets, with Tendrons

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Thyme and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,057 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Lamb Cutlets, with Tendrons

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Season the cutlets with pepper, salt, chopped eschalots, thyme, parsley, and lemon juice.

  2. Melt the butter in a pan and cook the cutlets until three-quarters done.

  3. Remove the cutlets and let them cool slightly.

  4. Brush the cutlets with yolk of egg and sprinkle with grated bread.

  5. Fry the cutlets in boiling lard until golden brown.

  6. Drain excess fat and serve with cucumber sauce in the center of the 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. Thyme + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

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

  3. Thyme + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,973 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

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

Swap the cucumber

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, thyme, parsley, lemon, butter, egg, bread):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Leekfits better
  3. Carrotfits better
  4. Cucumberthe original

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

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