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Iced Savory Souffle

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Crab and sauce work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 238 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Iced Savory Souffle

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the crab into small pieces and soak in mayonnaise sauce for 2-3 hours.

  2. Whip the aspic jelly until frothy.

  3. Pour some whipped aspic into the bottom of a serving dish.

  4. Layer the seasoned crab and fill with aspic and crab alternately until nearly full.

  5. Wrap a band of stiff paper around the dish and fill in with whipped aspic.

  6. Set the dish on ice for 2 hours.

  7. Remove the paper 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. Crab + saucetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together238 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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