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Lobster Sandwiches

A sandwich made with lobster coral, buttered wheat bread, paprika, chopped lobster meat mixed with mayonnaise, lettuce, and olives.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Lettuce and olive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,580 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Lobster Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Mix the lobster coral with a little butter.

  2. Spread the mixture on thin slices of wheat bread.

  3. Dust with a little paprika.

  4. Combine the chopped lobster meat with mayonnaise.

Assemble and serve

  1. Place the mixture between the buttered slices with a lettuce leaf on each slice.

  2. Press the slices together.

  3. Serve on a small meat platter, garnished with lettuce and olives.

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. Lettuce + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,580 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  2. Wheat + olivetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,100 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  3. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  4. Wheat + lettucetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together105 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  5. Bread + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,091 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Lobster coral
Adds rich lobster flavor and a golden color to the spread.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, helping the coral mixture spread smoothly on the bread.
Lobster meat
Provides the main filling with a tender, sweet seafood texture.
Mayonnaise
Binds the chopped lobster meat and adds moisture and richness.

Swap the lettuce

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lobster, butter, wheat, bread, meat, olive):

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Potatofits about as well
  3. Capsicumfits about as well
  4. Lettucethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lobster, butter, wheat, bread, meat, olive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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