Name: Curries, Potted Meats, Eto
Ingredients: meat; liquid (as needed); prawns; shrimps; cooked lobster meat

Why it works: Shrimp and lobster work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 403 recipes. Both carry 2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, green. The science ↓

Curries, Potted Meats, Eto

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare a thick pulp with the meat.
Add additional liquid if the mixture becomes too dry.
Simmer the mixture gently until the meat is cooked, about 45 minutes to 1 hour.
Slowly heat prawns, shrimps, or cooked lobster meat in the curry sauce before serving.

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.

Shrimp + lobstertop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together403 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).
Meat + shrimptop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together584 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Meat + lobstertop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together909 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).