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Firehouse Clam Bake New England Style

"Growing up along the Eastern seaboard in Rhode Island, seafood is a staple of the state! This is a wonderful recipe that is prepared right on the beach!! A lot of work, but well worth it! You'll have to collect a lot of stones and seaweed for this dish."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Clam and pork match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 305 recipes mention both. Both carry (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, melon. The science ↓

The recipe

40 servings
Prep3 hr 30 min
Cook1 hr 30 min

Ingredients

Contains: fish, shellfish (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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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. Clam + porktop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together305 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  2. Potato + porktop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,667 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  3. Potato + oniontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,019 recipes

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

  4. Potato + corntop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together938 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. Clam + potatotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together80 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the sweet potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lobster, clam, potato, corn, pork, onion):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  3. Asparagusbetter flavor fit
  4. Sweet potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lobster, clam, potato, corn, pork, onion. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).