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Combination Lamb Chops

Neatly trim six tender lamb chops, season all around with half a teaspoon salt and two saltspoons white pepper. Cut in even halves--lengthwise--three very fresh lamb kidneys. Season with three saltspoons salt and saltspoon pepper. Arrange both kidneys and chops on a double broiler and broil on a brisk fire three minutes on each side. Remove, dress on a hot dish, arrange six slices broiled bacon over them.

Cut away a small round piece at both ends of three fresh sound red tomatoes, cut them in halves, season with half teaspoon salt, half teaspoon sugar and two saltspoons pepper, arrange on a double broiler and broil three minutes on each side, dress them around the chops and serve.

For the Modern Kitchen

This is a mixed grill under another name, and it depends on getting four things to the table hot at the same moment. Read it as a sequence of quick broils rather than one operation.

A Little History

What this recipe calls a combination is what British and Anglo-American hotel kitchens called a mixed grill, a plate assembled from several small fast-cooking items rather than one large roast. It belonged to the era of the coal or charcoal grill and the hinged double broiler. Kidneys, cheap and quick, were a standard breakfast and grill-room item through the nineteenth century on both sides of the Atlantic, and the pairing of lamb chop with lamb kidney is treated here as self-evident and needing no explanation. The instructions read like a service line: trim, season, broil, dress, send out.

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