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Broiled Lobster

A lobster dish prepared by broiling halves, then serving the meat with melted butter and parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Broiled Lobster

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the lobsters in half and remove the gravel from the head.

  2. Season the lobster halves with salt, pepper, and rub with a little oil.

Broil

  1. Broil the lobster halves for 10 minutes.

  2. Remove the lobster halves from heat.

Make the sauce and fill the shells

  1. Take the meat from the head and place it in a salad bowl with melted butter.

  2. Mix the meat and butter well.

  3. Dip the remaining lobster meat in the sauce.

  4. Return the dipped meat to the shell.

  5. Warm the filled shells in the oven for 2 minutes.

Garnish and serve

  1. Garnish the shells with parsley greens and lemon.

  2. Serve with sauce.

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. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

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

  3. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,227 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

What each ingredient does

Lobsters
Provide the main meat, which is cooked in its shell and then dipped in butter.
Melted butter
Adds richness and moisture, coating the lobster meat for a rich flavour.

The step that matters

Broiling the lobster halves for 10 minutes. Lobster meat turns firm and rubbery when overcooked, while undercooked meat stays translucent and soft. Watching the time closely helps the meat set just until opaque and tender.

“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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