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Olives and Anchovy Butter

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Olive and biscuit match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 153 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Olives and Anchovy Butter

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the gluten biscuit into small croutons.

  2. Spread a thick layer of anchovy paste on each crouton.

  3. Remove the pits from the olives using a small cutter.

  4. Press each olive firmly onto a crouton.

  5. Prepare the egg mixture as for anchovy toast.

  6. Fill each olive with the egg mixture.

  7. Garnish with chopped egg white around the base of each olive.

  8. Serve immediately.

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. Olive + biscuittop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together153 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Olive + anchovytop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together880 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanol (green, fruity).

  3. Anchovy + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,697 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Olive + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,887 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Anchovy + biscuittop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together60 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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