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Creamed Oysters

A creamy oyster dish made by boiling oysters, simmering them in sweet cream, thickening with crackers, and seasoning.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and butter 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 ↓

Creamed Oysters

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Heat the cream and oysters in separate pots until boiling.

  2. Skim the cream and remove the oysters, placing them in a bowl to keep warm.

Finish the sauce

  1. Combine the cream and oyster liquor, season to taste, and thicken with powdered crackers until it reaches a creamy consistency.

  2. Add the oysters back into the thickened cream mixture.

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. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  2. Oyster + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,184 recipes

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

  3. Oyster + creamtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,886 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Oyster + peppertop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together7,663 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Oysters
Provide the briny, tender seafood flavor and texture at the centre of the dish.
Sweet cream
Adds richness and body, carrying the flavor of the oysters.
Powdered crackers
Their starch absorbs liquid and swells, thickening the cream.
Butter
Adds richness and a rounded flavor to the finished cream.

The step that matters

Thicken the cream with crackers. Cracker starch swells as it absorbs liquid, which thickens the cream. Let it sit briefly before judging, since it keeps thickening as it cools. Too much cracker can make the cream pasty.

“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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