Why it works: Lobster and lettuce work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 411 recipes. Both carry octanal, which smells fat, soap. The science ↓
Lobster Salad
Ingredients
Directions
Boil the lobster in warm water for about 30 minutes.
Remove the meat from the shells and claws, and cut it into blocks.
Let the lobster meat cool thoroughly.
Prepare the lobster dressing and chill it completely.
Make a nest of lettuce on a serving dish.
Mix some of the dressing with the lobster meat and place it in the dish.
Cover the lobster with the remaining dressing.
Garnish with small tufts of lettuce and the smaller claws.
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 pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.
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Lobster + lettucetop 17% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together411 recipes
Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).
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