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Broiled Crabs

Broiled Crabs seasoned with coarse sea salt and cayenne pepper, boiled briefly then broiled over a hot fire.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Crab and pepper work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 922 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Broiled Crabs

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Clean the crabs and remove the gills.

  2. Season the crabs with coarse sea salt and cayenne pepper.

Boil and broil

  1. Boil the crabs for one minute.

  2. Remove the crabs.

  3. Broil them over a hot fire for eight to ten minutes.

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. Crab + peppertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together922 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

What each ingredient does

Crabs
The main ingredient, whose meat cooks through during the brief boil and the broil.
Cayenne pepper
Adds heat and a sharp, pungent flavor to the crab's seasoned surface.

“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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