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Curried Lobster

A lobster dish simmered with ham, cayenne, curry, and cream, served over rice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Lobster and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,050 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Curried Lobster

Ingredients

Directions

Make the sauce

  1. Place a thin slice of ham in a shallow saucepan.

  2. Add cayenne pepper and salt.

  3. Mix white soup and cream, then pour over the lobster meat.

  4. Simmer on low heat for about 1 hour.

Finish and serve

  1. In a small bowl, mix curry powder and flour with a little liquid from the pot.

  2. Add this mixture to the saucepan and cook for 3 more minutes.

  3. Serve with a rim of well-boiled rice or separately.

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. Lobster + creamtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,050 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  2. Pepper + ricetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,379 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Meat + hamtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,095 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Meat + ricetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,481 recipes

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

  5. Lobster + meattop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together909 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Lobster
Provides the main meat, which becomes tender during the long, gentle simmer.
White soup
Forms the creamy base of the sauce and carries the other flavors.
Cream
Adds richness and a smooth, silky texture to the sauce.
Curry powder
Gives the sauce its warm, aromatic spiced flavor.
Flour
Thickens the sauce so it clings to the lobster meat.

The step that matters

Adding the curry and flour mixture. Flour must be fully mixed into liquid before it goes in, or it forms lumps. Cooking it briefly afterward removes its raw taste and lets the sauce thicken evenly.

“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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