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Potted Shrimps, Diable

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Mustard and olive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,950 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Potted Shrimps, Diable

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the shrimps as for potted shrimps until seasoning.

  2. Mix the table salt, sifted sugar, cayenne pepper, and mustard.

  3. Heat the olive oil in a stewpan until boiling hot.

  4. Add a handful of shrimps to the oil for less than a minute, then remove.

  5. Season the shrimps well with the mixture and lay them on dishes to cool.

  6. Repeat with the remaining shrimps, then fill pots and press the fish down closely.

  7. Cover with clarified butter the next day and secure with bladder or paper.

  8. Store in a dry, airy room.

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.

  1. Mustard + olivetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,950 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Pepper + mustardtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,430 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Pepper + olivetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,263 recipes

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

  4. Olive + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,887 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, pepper, olive, butter):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Tomatofits about as well
  3. Potatofits about as well
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, pepper, olive, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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