Name: Canned Lobster, Stewed
Ingredients: canned lobster meat; pepper; coarse sea salt (formerly 'bay salt'); toast

Why it works: Lobster and meat work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 909 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Canned Lobster, Stewed

Ingredients

canned lobster meat
pepper
coarse sea salt (formerly 'bay salt')
toast

Directions

Cut the canned lobster meat into small pieces.
In a saucepan, heat the lobster meat in its own liquid until it boils.
Season with pepper and coarse sea salt to taste.
Serve the stewed lobster plain or on 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Lobster + meattop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together909 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Meat + peppertop 19% of all pairs

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Cooked together8,777 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Lobster + peppertop 27% of all pairs

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Cooked together2,247 recipes

Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).