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Shrimp Sandwiches

A sandwich made with chopped shrimp, mayonnaise, buttered bread, and lettuce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Shrimp and meat work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 584 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Shrimp Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Chop the shrimp meat finely.

  2. Mix the chopped shrimp with mayonnaise dressing.

  3. Spread the mixture between slices of buttered bread.

  4. Add two lettuce leaves to the sandwich.

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. Shrimp + meattop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together584 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  2. Meat + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,924 recipes

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

  3. Bread + lettucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together602 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Shrimp + lettucetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together430 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Shrimp + breadtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together360 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanol (green, fruity).

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

What each ingredient does

Shrimp meat
Provides the main filling and savory flavor of the sandwich.
Mayonnaise dressing
Binds the chopped shrimp together and adds moisture and richness.
Buttered bread
Gives the sandwich its structure and a rich, toasty-buttery flavor.
Lettuce leaves
Adds crisp texture and freshness that contrasts with the soft filling.

Swap the lettuce

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (shrimp, meat, bread):

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Tomatofits better
  4. Lettucethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against shrimp, meat, bread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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