Why it works: Capers and cream work together. They rank in the top 27% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 282 recipes. Both carry octanal, which smells fat, soap. The science ↓
Caper Sauce
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare a cream or butter sauce.
Stir in 2 tablespoons of chopped capers.
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.
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Capers + creamtop 27% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together282 recipes
Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Capers
- Add a sharp, briny acidity that cuts through the richness of the cream or butter.
“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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