Name: Oysters Fkied
Ingredients: fine large oysters; corn meal; boiling lard or butter

Why it works: Oyster and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,184 recipes. Both carry 2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, green. The science ↓

Oysters Fkied

Ingredients

fine large oysters
corn meal
boiling lard or butter

Directions

Wash the oysters in cold water, a few at a time, and remove them quickly.
Place the oysters on a dish and sift a little corn meal over them.
Drop one or two oysters at a time into the hot lard or butter and fry until light brown.
Serve hot.

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.

Oyster + buttertop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together8,184 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).
Corn + buttertop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together7,345 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).
Oyster + corntop 24% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together250 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).