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Prairie Oyster

A pick-me-up drink for the morning after the night before.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 17,913 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 1
Prep30 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Chill a small serving glass in the freezer for about 10 minutes so the drink stays cold.

  2. Use a pasteurized egg, separate the yolk carefully, and slide it into the chilled glass without breaking it.

  3. Add the Cognac and fresh tomato juice to the glass over the yolk.

  4. Add the Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco, malt vinegar, salt and black pepper.

  5. Serve right away without stirring, so the yolk stays whole and the drinker can mix it in with a sip.

By bbcfood. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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. Tomato + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together17,913 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + vinegartop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together27,805 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Tomato + saucetop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together5,468 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Tomato + vinegartop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,061 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Malt + vinegartop 16% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together27 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, sauce, pepper, malt, vinegar):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Mustardbetter flavor fit
  3. Shallotabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, sauce, pepper, malt, vinegar. 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).