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Lamb Cutlets a L'espagne

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Tarragon and artichoke share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 60 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Lamb Cutlets a L'espagne

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Trim the best end of the neck of lamb and braise for 1 hour.

  2. Remove the lamb from the heat and press it until cold.

  3. Cut the lamb into neat cutlets and coat them with chaudfroid sauce.

  4. Garnish each cutlet with rings of green and white mayonnaise aspic.

  5. Serve the cutlets on a border of rice, leaning against a crouton in the center.

  6. Add cooked artichoke bottoms and diced ripe tomatoes in the center.

  7. Garnish with chopped aspic jelly and add frills to the bones if desired.

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. Tarragon + artichoketop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together60 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Tomato + tarragontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together391 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Tomato + ricetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,065 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Tarragon + vinegartop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,547 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Tomato + artichoketop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together354 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

Swap the tarragon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lamb, sauce, sherry, tomato, vinegar, rice, artichoke):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Garlicfits about as well
  3. Tarragonthe original
  4. Corianderfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against lamb, sauce, sherry, tomato, vinegar, rice, artichoke. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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