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Canned Lobster, Deviled

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Lobster and nutmeg work together. They rank in the top 23% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 458 recipes. Both carry octanal, which smells fat, soap. The science ↓

Canned Lobster, Deviled

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the canned lobster as you would for crab.

  2. Add a little grated nutmeg to the seasoning.

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. Lobster + nutmegtop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together458 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

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

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