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Lobstee Oe Salmon Chops

A dish of lobster or salmon mixed with cream, onion, and seasonings, formed into chops, breaded and fried.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Lobstee Oe Salmon Chops

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the seafood

  1. Boil lobster or salmon in salted water for 20 to 25 minutes.

  2. Chop the seafood as finely as possible.

Make the mixture

  1. In a saucepan, combine sweet cream, butter, and chopped onion.

  2. Add cornstarch mixed with cold cream, then boil while stirring.

  3. Stir in the chopped lobster or salmon, season with cayenne and Worcestershire sauce.

  4. Once cooled, shape the mixture into chops.

Coat and fry

  1. Dip each chop in beaten egg, then coat with bread or cracker crumbs.

  2. Fry in hot lard until golden brown.

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

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

  2. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  3. Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

  5. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Lobster or salmon (in the method)
Forms the main body and flavor of the chops.
Sweet cream
Adds richness and moisture, helping keep the chops tender.
Cornstarch
Thickens the cream so the mixture firms up enough to hold its shape.
Egg
Binds the chops and helps the crumbs adhere to the surface.
Bread or cracker crumbs
Form a crisp, golden-brown crust when fried.
Onion
Adds savory aroma to the mixture.

The step that matters

Let the mixture cool before shaping. Cornstarch thickens the cream as it cools and sets, so the mixture firms up enough to hold its shape. Shaping it while still hot leaves it too soft to form chops that keep their shape through the egg and crumb coating and the frying.

Swap the onion

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Spinachfits about as well
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, egg, pepper, sauce, butter, 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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