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Shrimp Sauce

A simple sauce made from shrimp, lemon juice, and cayenne.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Shrimp and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,923 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Shrimp Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine the shrimp, lemon juice, and cayenne in a bowl and mix well to combine.

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. Shrimp + lemontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,923 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

Shrimps
Provides the main body and savory flavor of the sauce.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the flavor of the shrimp.

“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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