Name: Cafe De Paris, Monte Carlo
Ingredients: 2 1/2 cups of butter; a tablespoon of butter; 1 lemon; 2 eggs well beaten

Why it works: Butter and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,227 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Cafe De Paris, Monte Carlo

Ingredients

2 1/2 cups of butter
a tablespoon of butter
1 lemon
2 eggs well beaten

Directions

MRS. RICHMOND PEARSON, ASHEVILLE, N. C.
_Contributed by Mrs. Portieux Robinson, Richmond, Va._
Put in saucepan of granite--a tablespoon of butter, some slices of onion, parsley, thyme, and bay leaf, salt and pepper. Add a glass of white dry wine and juice of 1 lemon. After it is cooked, pour over your fish. Cover fish and let it cook very slowly. When it is cooked, put it on plate on which it is to be served, and put in stove until sauce be reduced then add yolks of 2 eggs well beaten, 2½ cups of butter. Do not let sauce boil. Pass through sieve and pour sauce on fish, and serve very hot. This sauce is good for any white fish.
OLD ENGLISH COOKING--1855.
_Contributed by Mrs. Robert E. Patterson, Philadelphia, Pa._

By Jacqueline Harrison Smith (ed.). Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together41,227 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together118,967 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Lemon + eggtop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together44,316 recipes

Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

Lemon and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 44,316 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, egg):

Lemonthe original
Vanillaabout as good a flavor fit
Coconutabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, egg. 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).