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Snails with Fine Herb Butter

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Snail and sauce share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Snails with Fine Herb Butter

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the snails in water for 15 minutes.

  2. Remove the snails from their shells and wash them several times.

  3. Boil the snails again and drain them.

  4. Fry the snails in butter with finely chopped shallots until light brown.

  5. Add a little reduced piquante sauce and refill the snails into their shells without sauce.

  6. Cover the tops with parsley butter mixed with a little lemon juice and chopped shallots.

  7. Serve on a folded napkin on a dish.

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. Snail + saucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Shallot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,737 recipes

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

  4. Shallot + lemontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,523 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Shallot + saucetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,303 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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