Why it works: Crayfish and bread work together. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 95 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓
Bouillon Omx Ecrevisses
Ingredients
Directions
Pound the crayfish in a mortar and rub through a sieve to make a puree.
Moisten the puree with bouillon.
Pour a little bouillon into a soup tureen to moisten the fried bread cut into dice.
Add the remaining puree just before serving.
Pound the shells with more bouillon for color.
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.
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Crayfish + breadtop 21% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together95 recipes
Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
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