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Lobster Sauce

A sauce made by boiling lobster, pounding spawn and coral with butter, sieving, and mixing with melted butter and lobster meat.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Lobster Sauce

Why it works: Lobster and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,609 recipes. Both carry 2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, green. The science ↓

Lobster Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the coral butter

  1. Boil the lobster until cooked, then remove the spawn and red coral.

  2. In a mortar, pound the spawn and coral with the butter until smooth.

  3. Rub the mixture through a fine sieve using the back of a wooden spoon.

Make the sauce

  1. Cut the lobster meat into small squares.

  2. Combine the pounded mixture with enough melted butter to create a sauce.

  3. Stir in the lobster meat and warm gently on the stove without boiling to maintain color.

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 + buttertop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,609 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  2. Butter + vealtop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,381 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Lobster + vealtop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together225 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Lobster spawn and coral
Provides the rich colour and concentrated lobster flavour of the sauce.
Butter
Carries the flavour and gives the sauce a smooth, rich body.
Lobster meat
Supplies the main texture and sweet seafood flavour in the finished sauce.

The step that matters

Warming the sauce without boiling. Boiling can make the butter separate and can dull the bright red colour of the lobster. Gentle heat keeps the sauce smooth and the lobster meat tender.

“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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