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Clams Saute

Sautéed clams cooked with diced bacon and served on toasted bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Clam and pork work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 305 recipes. Both carry (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, melon. The science ↓

Clams Saute

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Fry the diced pork or bacon in a skillet until crisp.

  2. When the pork begins to brown, push it to the side of the pan.

  3. Add the clams to the pan and sauté, turning once or twice.

  4. Serve the clams on toasted Graham or Boston brown bread.

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. Clam + porktop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together305 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  2. Clam + white peppertop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together47 recipes
  3. Pork + white peppertop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together791 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl butyrate (fruity, apple).

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

What each ingredient does

Soft clams
Provide the main protein, cooking gently in the rendered fat until they open.
Salt pork or bacon
Renders fat for sautéing and browns to add a savoury, smoky flavour.

The step that matters

Sautéing the clams. Clams turn rubbery when overcooked. Cook them only until they open, turning once or twice, so they stay tender.

Swap the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (clam, pork):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against clam, pork. 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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