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Shrimp Sandwiches

Shrimp Sandwiches are made by pounding shrimp with butter and anchovy essence, seasoning, and spreading on buttered brown bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Shrimp Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Make the shrimp paste

  1. Pound the picked shrimps with a little fresh butter and anchovy essence until fine.

  2. Add lemon juice, pepper, and coarse sea salt to taste.

Assemble the sandwiches

  1. Cut thin slices of brown bread.

  2. Butter the slices.

  3. Spread the shrimp paste on one slice.

  4. Cover with another slice.

  5. Press together.

  6. Cut into different shapes.

Serve

  1. Arrange on a napkin.

  2. Garnish with parsley.

  3. Serve.

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. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  4. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  5. Shrimp + anchovytop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together440 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanol (green, fruity).

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

What each ingredient does

Picked shrimps
Provide the main savoury filling that forms the paste.
Fresh butter
Adds richness and a smooth texture to the shrimp paste and bread.
Brown bread
Forms the structure of the sandwich and holds the filling.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the flavour 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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