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
Soak the crab pieces in mayonnaise sauce for 2 hours.
Whip the aspic jelly until frothy.
In a serving dish, layer the whipped aspic and seasoned crab alternately until nearly full.
Wrap a band of stiff paper around the dish and fill in with more whipped aspic.
Set the dish on ice for 2 hours.
Remove the paper and serve.
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.
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Crab + saucetop 11% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together238 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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Crab + peppertop 15% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together922 recipes
Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
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Sauce + peppertop 27% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together15,303 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Sauce and pepper barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 15,303 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.
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