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Lobster Sandwiches

A sandwich made with lobster meat, mayonnaise, butter, bread, paprika, and lettuce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Lobster Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Combine the chopped lobster meat with mayonnaise.

  2. Mix the coral of the lobster with a little butter and spread on thin slices of wheat bread.

  3. Dust with a little paprika.

Assemble and serve

  1. Put the lobster 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.

Explore the science

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

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

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

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

  3. Wheat + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together209 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  4. Butter + wheattop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,002 recipes

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

  5. Meat + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,924 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Lobster meat
Provides the main filling and sweet, delicate seafood flavour.
Mayonnaise
Binds the chopped lobster meat and adds moisture and richness to the filling.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the bread stay moist against the filling.
Wheat bread
Forms the sandwich structure, holding the filling between thin slices.
Lettuce leaves
Adds a crisp, fresh layer that contrasts with the soft filling.

The step that matters

Press the slices together. Pressing gently helps the filling spread evenly and the bread hold it in place. Pressing too hard squeezes out the mayonnaise and makes the bread soggy.

Swap the lettuce

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

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Asparagusfits about as well
  3. Shallotfits about as well
  4. Lettucethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lobster, meat, butter, wheat, bread. 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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