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Caviar Canape

Caviar canapé is a small appetizer made with stale bread, Russian caviar, lemon juice, hard‑boiled eggs, and parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Caviar Canape

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the toast

  1. Cut 6 pieces of stale bread with a biscuit cutter.

  2. Toast one side of the bread.

Top and serve

  1. Mix the Russian caviar with lemon juice.

  2. Spread the caviar mixture on the toasted side of the bread.

  3. Press the yolk and whites of the hard-boiled eggs separately through a sieve.

  4. On the edge of the toast, place a border of chopped parsley.

  5. Add a row of the egg whites, then a row of the egg yolks.

  6. Serve on canapé plates.

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. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

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

  2. Caviar + eggtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together101 recipes

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

  3. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  4. Bread + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,588 recipes

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

  5. Bread + caviartop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together65 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

Stale bread
Forms the crisp toasted base that holds the topping.
Russian caviar
Provides the salty, briny flavour that is the centrepiece of the canapé.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the rich caviar and balances its saltiness.
Hard boiled eggs
Add creamy texture and mild richness through the separated whites and yolks.

“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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