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Crayfish Canapees

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and parsley are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,588 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Crayfish Canapees

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut bread into croutons.

  2. Fry the croutons until golden brown.

  3. Spread a layer of potted crayfish paste over the croutons.

  4. Garnish with parsley before serving.

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. Bread + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,588 recipes

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

  2. Crayfish + parsleytop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together159 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  3. Bread + crayfishtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together95 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, crayfish):

  1. Nutmegfits about as well
  2. Capersfits about as well
  3. Parsleythe original
  4. Celeryfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, crayfish. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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