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Shrimp Sandwichiies

A sandwich made by mixing shrimp with butter, cayenne pepper, and salt, then spreading on bread and garnishing with parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Shrimp Sandwichiies

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Pound together the shrimps and butter until well combined.

  2. Add cayenne and a pinch of salt, mixing thoroughly.

Assemble and serve

  1. Spread the mixture on half of the bread slices.

  2. Top with the remaining bread slices and press firmly together.

  3. Cut the sandwiches into diamond shapes.

  4. Arrange in a star shape on a serving dish and garnish with parsley.

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 + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  3. Shrimp + buttertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,931 recipes

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

  4. Butter + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together28,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  5. Bread + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,588 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Shrimps
Provide the main filling and savoury flavour of the sandwich.
Butter
Binds the shrimp into a spreadable paste and adds richness.
Thin slices of white bread
Hold the filling and form the sandwich structure.

The step that matters

Pound together the shrimps and butter until well combined. Pounding breaks the shrimp into fine pieces and works it into the butter, so the filling spreads smoothly instead of staying in lumps. Under-mixing leaves uneven texture and pockets of plain shrimp or butter.

Swap the parsley

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

  1. Parsleythe original
  2. Garlicfits about as well
  3. Thymefits less well
  4. Capersfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against shrimp, butter, pepper, bread. 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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