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Lobster a LA Thackeray

A lobster dish cooked with butter, cayenne pepper, walnut catsup, and paprika.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and walnut are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,039 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Lobster a LA Thackeray

Oven, in the book's wordsA cool oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a saucepan or chafing dish, combine the green part of the lobster with butter, salt, cayenne, walnut catsup, and paprika, then cook for five minutes.

  2. Add the meat of the two lobsters and stir to combine.

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. Pepper + walnuttop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,039 recipes

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

  2. Meat + walnuttop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,035 recipes

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

  3. Meat + lobstertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together909 recipes

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

  4. Butter + walnuttop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,832 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Meat + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,594 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Lobster meat
Provides the main protein and tender, sweet flavour that the sauce coats.
Butter
Adds richness and carries the seasonings, giving the sauce a smooth, silky body.
Walnut catsup
Adds a dark, tangy, savoury note that deepens the flavour of the sauce.
Paprika
Contributes mild earthy flavour and a warm reddish colour to the sauce.

Swap the walnut

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

  1. Walnutthe original
  2. Beansfits about as well
  3. Almondfits less well
  4. Lima beansfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, lobster, pepper, butter. 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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