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Canapes of Caviar

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and parsley are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 25,843 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Canapes of Caviar

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the toast into circles.

  2. Spread the edges of each toast circle with anchovy paste.

  3. Place an onion ring at the base of each toast.

  4. Fill the onion ring with Russian caviar.

  5. Garnish with chopped parsley.

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.

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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 + parsleytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 recipes

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

  2. Anchovy + parsleytop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,702 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Anchovy + oniontop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,263 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Anchovy + caviartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together20 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Onion + caviartop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together46 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 parsley

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

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Capersfits better
  3. Parsleythe original
  4. Celeryfits about as well

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

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