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Clam Chowder

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 17 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,491 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Clam Chowder

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Drain and dry the oysters with cheesecloth. Dust with salt and cayenne pepper.

  2. Beat the eggs and add hot water. Dip the oysters first in bread crumbs, then in the egg, and back in the crumbs.

  3. Lift the oysters with your fingers and place them on a board.

  4. Heat the olive oil until smoking hot. Place the oysters in a wire basket, cooking five or six at a time.

  5. Fry until golden brown, then lift carefully and place on brown paper in a baking pan.

  6. Garnish with lemon and parsley, and serve very 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.

  1. Pepper + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,491 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Oyster + sturgeontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  5. Oyster + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,184 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

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

Swap the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (oyster, egg, sturgeon, bread, butter, pepper, cream):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Plumfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Limethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against oyster, egg, sturgeon, bread, butter, pepper, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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