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Escallopped Oysters

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 27,145 recipes mention both. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Escallopped Oysters

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

  1. Butter a scallop shell or dish and sprinkle with sweet bread crumbs.

  2. Place a layer of oysters on the crumbs and season with pepper and coarse sea salt.

  3. Add another layer of oysters, more bread crumbs, butter, and season again.

  4. Add a third layer of oysters, a little butter, a dash of cayenne pepper, and the oyster liquor.

  5. Bake in a 400°F (200°C) oven for twenty minutes.

  6. Use a hot shovel to brown the top until it resembles good toast.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Butter + breadtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,145 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Bread + oystertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,544 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Butter + oystertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8,175 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  4. Bread + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together20,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Butter + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together85,512 recipes

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

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