Name: Broiled Snipes
Ingredients: 4 snipes; Salt to taste; Pepper to taste; Butter for basting; Toast for serving

Why it works: Pepper and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 85,593 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Broiled Snipes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

Preheat your grill to medium-high heat.
Split the snipes down the back and remove the insides.
Wipe the snipes clean and flatten them.
Season with salt and pepper.

Cook and serve

Place on the grill and baste with butter.
Cook for about 5-7 minutes on each side until cooked through.
Serve 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.

Explore the science

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.

Pepper + buttertop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together85,593 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Snipes: Form the main protein that is cooked and served as the dish.
Butter: Adds richness and moisture to the surface while the snipes cook on the grill.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.