Why it works: Egg and scallop work together. They rank in the top 28% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 90 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓
Scallops a LA Poulette
Ingredients
Directions
Cook the scallops until done, then remove from heat.
Stir in the yolks of 2 eggs into the scallops.
Prepare pastry puffs and heat them well.
Fill the heated pastry puffs with the scallop mixture 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 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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Egg + scalloptop 28% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together90 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
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