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Oyster Ramekins

Oyster Ramekins are oysters baked in individual ramekins with toasted bread, butter, salt, pepper, and a dash of hot ketchup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Oyster Ramekins

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut rounds of bread to fit the bottom of the ramekins and toast them nicely.

  2. Spread butter on the toasted bread and place them in the ramekins.

Bake and serve

  1. Fill the ramekins with oysters and season with coarse sea salt, black pepper, and bits of butter.

  2. Place the ramekins in a baking dish half full of water and cover with another pan.

  3. Bake until the oysters are plump, about 10 minutes.

  4. Add 1 teaspoon of hot ketchup to each ramekin and serve.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Butter + oystertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,184 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  3. Bread + oystertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,545 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Oyster + ketchuptop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together318 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Oysters
Main ingredient that turns plump and tender when gently heated.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture to the toast and seasons the oysters as they cook.
Rounds of bread
Forms a toasted base that holds the oysters and soaks up their juices.

The step that matters

Bake until the oysters are plump. Oysters turn tough and shrink when overheated, so watch them closely and stop once they plump up. The water bath in the baking dish surrounds the ramekins with gentle steam, which helps heat them evenly and slowly.

“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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