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Lamb, Breast Of, Stuffed

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Beans and carrot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,443 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Lamb, Breast Of, Stuffed

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove the bones from the lamb and flatten the meat with a rolling pin.

  2. Season well with salt and pepper, spread on the veal forcemeat, roll up tightly, and bind securely with string.

  3. Slice the vegetables and place them in a large stewpan with 2 oz. of butter.

  4. Place the meat on top, cover, and cook gently for 20 minutes.

  5. Add the herbs, peppercorns, and stock to nearly cover the vegetables.

  6. Place a buttered paper over the meat, cover with a lid, and braise for 2 hours.

  7. Cook the beans in salted water, drain well, and toss in melted butter with salt and pepper for a few minutes.

  8. Serve the beans arranged in small groups around the dish and send the sauce to the table in a sauceboat.

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. Beans + carrottop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,443 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + carrottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,555 recipes

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

  3. Onion + carrottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together21,601 recipes

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

  4. Beans + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,242 recipes

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

  5. Beans + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,733 recipes

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

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lamb, sauce, veal, beans, butter, pepper, carrot):

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lamb, sauce, veal, beans, butter, pepper, carrot. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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