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Shrimp a LA Creole in Casserole

A casserole of boiled shrimp simmered with onion, mushrooms, French peas, tomatoes, ketchup, bay leaf, and spices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Clove and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 17,451 recipes. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

Shrimp a LA Creole in Casserole

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine the onion, mushrooms, cloves, French peas, bay leaf, tomatoes, ketchup, salt, and cayenne pepper in a casserole.

  2. Stew the mixture for one hour.

  3. Add the boiled shrimp, cut into dice, and stir well.

  4. Serve very hot.

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. Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  2. Mushroom + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,719 recipes

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

  3. Tomato + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Onion + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,633 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Peas + tomatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

What each ingredient does

Shrimp
Provides the main protein and sweet, briny flavor that anchors the dish.
Tomatoes
Add acidity and liquid that combine with the ketchup into the sauce base.
Onion
Adds aromatic sweetness that deepens as it stews into the sauce.
Ketchup
Contributes sweetness, acidity and color to the stewed sauce.
Mushrooms
Add moisture and earthy flavor to the stewed mixture.

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (shrimp, onion, mushroom, clove, tomato, ketchup, pepper):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Sesamefits better
  3. Chestnutfits about as well
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against shrimp, onion, mushroom, clove, tomato, ketchup, pepper. 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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