Name: Lamb Cutlets Glazed, and Sauce a LA Reine
Ingredients: Lamb cutlets; glaze; Sauce a la Reine (see Appendix)

Why it works: Lamb and sauce work together. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 925 recipes. Both carry decanoic acid, which smells soapy, waxy. The science ↓

Lamb Cutlets Glazed, and Sauce a LA Reine

Ingredients

Lamb cutlets
glaze
Sauce a la Reine (see Appendix)

Directions

Preheat your stove to medium heat.
Melt some glaze in a sauté pan.
Lay the lamb cutlets in the pan and simmer for a few minutes.
Turn the cutlets and cook on the stove for about ten minutes until done.
Arrange the cutlets around a serving dish and pour the sauce in the middle.

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.

Lamb + saucetop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together925 recipes

Shared aroma: decanoic acid (soapy, waxy).

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Lamb Cutlets Glazed, and Sauce a LA Reine