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Lamb Chops

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and potato match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,798 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Lamb Chops

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Trim the lamb chops neatly and scrape the bones.

  2. Season the chops with pepper and roll them in butter.

  3. Broil the chops carefully until cooked.

  4. Add more butter, salt, and black pepper on top of the cooked chops.

  5. Wrap small pieces of white paper around the ends of the bones.

  6. Arrange the chops on a dish with a center of tomatoes, peas, champignons, or mashed potatoes.

  7. For a variation, dip the broiled chops in bread crumbs, brown them in lard, and serve as above.

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. Tomato + potatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,798 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Tomato + peastop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Peas + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,016 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

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

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lamb, butter, pepper, bread, tomato, potato):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Chickpeafits about as well
  3. Peasthe original
  4. Peanutfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against lamb, butter, pepper, bread, tomato, potato. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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