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Oysters and Clams No. 1

Raw oysters and Little Neck clams served on the half shell.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Oyster and clam work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 111 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Oysters and Clams No. 1

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Serve raw oysters on the half shell.

  2. Serve Little Neck clams on the half shell.

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. Oyster + clamtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together111 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

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

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