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Lamb Cutlets

Lamb cutlets are lamb rack pieces trimmed and buttered, then broiled and served with buttered bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Lamb Cutlets

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the cutlets

  1. Cut the lamb rack into chops, removing the backbone and trimming the ends of the ribs for uniform length.

  2. Leave two rib bones in each chop.

  3. Carefully cut out one bone from each chop.

  4. Scrape the other bone clean for about one inch.

  5. Flatten the cutlets and trim off any ragged edges.

Cook

  1. Prepare a charcoal bed in the ash-pan.

  2. Place a few live coals on top for good airflow.

  3. Brush both sides of the cutlets with drippings or melted butter.

  4. Place the cutlets on a wire broiler.

  5. Cook quickly, about the same time it takes to boil an egg soft.

Serve

  1. Toast and butter thin pear-shaped slices of bread.

  2. Serve one slice for each cutlet on a 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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Lamb + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together598 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  3. Lamb + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Lamb rack
Provides the meat for the cutlets, which cook quickly and stay tender when kept thin.
Drippings or melted butter
Adds fat and moisture to the surface, helping the cutlets brown and taste rich.
Bread slices
Serve as a toasted, buttered base that soaks up flavour and contrasts with the meat.

The step that matters

Cook quickly over a hot charcoal bed. Thin cutlets dry out and toughen if cooked too long. Brief, intense heat browns the outside while keeping the inside juicy and tender.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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