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Oyster Stew

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Oyster and fish work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 496 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Oyster Stew

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Shuck the raw oysters and set aside.

  2. Prepare the cold tongue and slice it thinly.

  3. Make the chicken salad by mixing cooked chicken with mayonnaise and seasonings.

  4. Serve raspberry jam on the side.

  5. Arrange cheese and waffles on a platter.

  6. Toast the bread until golden brown.

  7. Bake the peas until tender.

  8. Serve fish cake and coffee alongside.

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 + fishtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together496 recipes

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

  2. Raspberry + peastop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together23 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-hex-3-en-1-ol (freshly cut grass green and herbaceous notes).

  3. Chicken + fishtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together190 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Chicken + peastop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,528 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Chicken + cheesetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,936 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

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

Swap the raspberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (oyster, chicken, cheese, peas, fish, coffee):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Grapefits better
  3. Pumpkinfits better
  4. Raspberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against oyster, chicken, cheese, peas, fish, coffee. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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