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Oysters with Lettuce

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Oyster and lettuce work together. They rank in the top 24% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 150 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Oysters with Lettuce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove gills from oysters.

  2. Serve oysters on a bed of fresh lettuce.

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. Oyster + lettucetop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together150 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

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