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Lamb Pie

A baked lamb pie made with lamb loin, neck or breast, seasoned with salt and pepper, and finished with jelly gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Lamb and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,165 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Lamb Pie

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the lamb

  1. Remove the bone from the lamb, leaving the gristle.

  2. Season lightly with coarse sea salt and black pepper.

Bake and finish

  1. Add a small quantity of jelly gravy and 2 tablespoons of water before baking.

  2. Bake until cooked, then let the pie cool before cutting.

  3. After removing from the oven, add 2 tablespoons of gravy.

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. Lamb + peppertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,165 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Lamb loin, neck, or breast
Forms the main meat filling and supplies most of the dish's savoury flavour.
Jelly gravy
Adds moisture and richness to the meat as it bakes.

The step that matters

Let the pie cool before cutting. As it cools, the gravy and juices thicken and set, so the filling holds together when sliced instead of running out.

“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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