Name: Lamb Chops
Ingredients: 4 oz fine bread crumbs; 1 teaspoon salt; ¼ teaspoon white pepper; 1 tablespoon parsley, finely chopped; 2 beaten eggs; 1 large bunch of parsley; 1 teaspoon salt; lamb's dripping for frying

Why it works: Parsley and lamb are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,322 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Lamb Chops

Ingredients

Directions

Season the bread crumbs with salt, pepper, and chopped parsley.
Dip each cutlet into beaten egg, then coat with the seasoned crumbs.
Fry in boiling lamb's dripping for 18-20 minutes until golden brown.
Serve on a hot dish with fried parsley in the center.
Wash and soak the parsley in cold water with ¼ teaspoon salt for 1 hour.
Fry the parsley in boiling dripping three times until crisp and green.

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.

Parsley + lambtop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,322 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together22,662 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
Bread + lambtop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together598 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
White pepper + parsleytop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,451 recipes

Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).
Bread + parsleytop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together8,588 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).