Why it works: Mace and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,315 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓
Oystek Sauce
Ingredients
Directions
Mrs. L. T.
Take oysters out of their liquor and throw them into cold water ; put the liquor over the fire with the beards of the oysters, and boil with a bit of mace and lemon peel ; then strain the liquor ; take the oysters out of the water ; drain, and put them with the strained liquor into a sauce- pan, with sufficient butter and milk for your sauce ; dust into this flour; let it boil up; add a squeeze of lemon juice, and serve hot.
132 THE HOME COOK BOOK.
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 pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.
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Mace + lemontop 18% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together6,315 recipes
Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
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