Name: Crown Roast of Lamb
Ingredients: 1 crown roast of lamb; mashed potatoes; creamed cucumbers; hot rolls; currant jelly

Why it works: Lamb and potato work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 520 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Crown Roast of Lamb

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the crown roast of lamb by seasoning it and roasting it in a moderate oven at 350°F (175°C) until cooked to your liking.
While the lamb is roasting, prepare mashed potatoes and place them in the center of the roast.
For creamed cucumbers, slice cucumbers and mix with a creamy dressing.
Serve with hot rolls and currant jelly.

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 + potatotop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together520 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
Potato + cucumbertop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together481 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Lamb + cucumbertop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together269 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Lamb + curranttop 25% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together60 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
Potato + curranttop 29% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together110 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).