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Shrimps Creamed

A creamy shrimp dish served over toast.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Shrimps Creamed

Ingredients

Directions

Make the creamed shrimp

  1. Heat the butter in a pan and add the grated onion.

  2. Stir in the cold boiled rice and cook until hot.

  3. Add the cream and shrimps, stirring until it reaches a boil.

  4. Reduce heat and simmer for about 5 minutes.

Serve

  1. Serve the mixture on toast.

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. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  2. Onion + ricetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,433 recipes

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

  3. Butter + shrimptop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,931 recipes

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

  4. Rice + shrimptop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,055 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-methylbutanol (malty, whiskey).

  5. Butter + oniontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42,912 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Cold boiled rice
Thickens the cream as it heats, giving the mixture body.
Cream
Provides richness and a smooth, creamy texture as the sauce simmers.
Butter
Adds fat and flavour, helping cook the onion gently in the pan.
Shrimps
Supply the main seafood flavour and tender texture in the dish.

The step that matters

Simmering after the cream goes in. Once the cream reaches a boil, reducing the heat to a gentle simmer keeps it from scorching or separating, so the sauce stays smooth and the rice has time to soften and thicken.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, rice, cream, shrimp):

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Asparagusfits about as well
  3. Chivefits about as well
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, rice, cream, shrimp. 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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