Why it works: Clam and bread work together. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 125 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓
Deviled Clams
Ingredients
Directions
Open the clams raw and remove the hard outer rim.
Chop the remaining clam meat finely.
Save some clam liquor to mix with the chopped clams and bread crumbs.
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.
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Clam + breadtop 18% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together125 recipes
Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
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