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Fried Scallops

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Why it works: Milk and butter match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 81,222 recipes mention both. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

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Ingredients

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

Also mentioned in the method: oyster, scallop

Directions

  1. Pick over and wash, drain between towels, season fine cracker crumbs with salt and pepper. Dip the scallops in the crumbs, then in beaten egg and again in crumbs. Fry in smoking hot fat and serve at once. Escalloped scallops are prepared the same as escalloped oysters and make a delicious dish. Moisten with milk.

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  3. Season one cup chopped ham with one half teaspoon mixed mustard and one half saltspoon cayenne. Add -one raw egg and one third cup of stale bread crumbs cooked in one third cup of milk to a smooth paste. Mix well and cover six hard boiled eggs with the mixture. Fry in hot fat.

  4. STUFFED EGK^S.

  5. Eight eggs boiled hard and cut in halves lengthwise. Mash yolks with butter size of an egg. Add nearly as many bread crumbs as you have yolks. Soaked in milk and squeezed almost dry. Add little pepper, salt, onion and parsley. Fill

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  7. 22 HARVEST FESTIVAL

  8. white with this mixture, place in buttered dish, two halves together, and pour over sauce made as follows : One cup milk, butter size of an egg ; when hot add one tablespoonful flour and salt. Boil until thick as molasses. Sprinkle bread crumbs on top. V Bake in hot oven fifteen minutes. soalIjOPed Eoas. Boil six eggs twenty minutes. Make one pint of white sauce with stock and cream or milk and season to taste, with pepper and salt. Moisten one cup of fine cracker crumbs in one quarter cup melted butter. Chop fine one cup of ham, tongue or chicken. Remove the yolks of the eggs and chop the whites fine, rub the eggs through a fine strainer Put a layer of buttered crumbs in a buttered dish, then a layer of chopped whites, white sauce, yolks and the chopped meat and so on, until all is used, having buttered crumbs on top. Bake until the crumbs are brown.

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  10. Boil ten eggs twenty minutes, shell them and cut into slices and put in a hot dish, reserving a few slices for the top. Have ready to pour over them this sauce. Fry one small onion sliced, until a golden brown, in two tablespoonfuls of butter before melting. Moisten a tablespoonful of corn starch in a gill of cream, add to this a gill of stock, add this to butter and onion, stirring continually until thick and creamy. Serve at once.

  11. EOa NESTS ON TOAST.

  12. For six nests UvSe six eggs, one half teaspoonful of salt, six small slices of toast, separate the two

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  14. COOK BOOK. 23

  15. parts of the eggs, putting the white into the bowl, leaving the yolks in half shells until needed. Add salt to the whites and beat to a stiff froth. Toast the bread, and after dipping the edges in hot water spread with butter and place on tin sheet or pan. Heap the whites of the eggs on the toast, make a depression in the center of each mound, in which put one fourth teaspoon os butter, and drop in the yolks. Place in a moderate oven and bake three minutes. Serve immediately on warm dish. If ham be liked, a spoonful chopped fine may be spread on each slice of toast, before the white of the egg. Sprinkle salt and pepper on the yolk.

By Ladies' Benevolent Society, First Congregational Church (Fall River, Mass .). Ladies' Benevolent Society, Mass.) First Congregational Church (Fall River. 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.

Explore the science

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. Milk + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together81,222 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Butter + creamtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Milk + corntop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together6,953 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

  4. Butter + corntop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together7,333 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Sauce + mustardtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,120 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (ham, milk, flour, sauce, butter, corn, cream):

  1. Potatobetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  3. Asparagusbetter flavor fit
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against ham, milk, flour, sauce, butter, corn, cream. 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).

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