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Shrimp and Lobster Sandwich

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Why it works: Onion and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 68,474 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Shrimp and Lobster Sandwich

Ingredients

Directions

  1. One can meat chopped fine, equal part celery chopped fine, one teaspoon vinegar, and pepper and salt to taste. When ready to serve, mix with one very small cup of stiff mayon- naise. Have your bread well buttered, put in a leaf of lettuce and spread with mixture. This portion makes thirty-six sand- wiches.

  2. Elizabeth Kerckhoff. WALNUT SANDWICH.

  3. Shell half a pound of English walnuts. Put the kernels into a pint of boiling water ; boil for a minute ; drain, and cover with stock; add a bay leaf, a few celery tops and a slice of onion. Cook gently for twenty minutes, drain and skim ; chop fine, add half a teaspoonful of salt and a dash of cayenne or paprika. Spread between thin slices of buttered bread. These are very nice served with lobster a la Newberg.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

87Calories
2 gProtein
3 gFat
14 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Cayenne1 tsp (1.8g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Bay Leaf1 leaf (0.6g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Landmarks Club. 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. See the original page.

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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. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

  2. Walnut + peppertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,039 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Vinegar + oniontop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,226 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  4. Vinegar + peppertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,814 recipes

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

  5. Walnut + oniontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,771 recipes

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

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

Swap the walnut

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

  1. Sesamefits better
  2. Black-eyed peafits better
  3. Soybeanfits better
  4. Walnutthe original

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

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