Name: Croutes of Lobster or Shrimps
Ingredients: Lobster or shrimps; Mustard; Cress; Gluten biscuits; Mayonnaise sauce

Why it works: Mustard and biscuit match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 121 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Croutes of Lobster or Shrimps

Ingredients

Directions

Cut the gluten biscuits into nice croutes.
Chop the lobster or shrimps.
Top each crouton with mustard, cress, and chopped lobster or shrimps.
Drizzle with mayonnaise sauce.

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.

Mustard + biscuittop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together121 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Lobster + saucetop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,095 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Mustard + saucetop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,120 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Biscuit + saucetop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together197 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Lobster + mustardtop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together394 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).