Name: Shrimp Canapes
Ingredients: cooked shrimp; coralline pepper or lobster coral; small round lace paper; buttered toast or croutons of bread

Why it works: Pepper and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 20,964 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Shrimp Canapes

Ingredients

cooked shrimp
coralline pepper or lobster coral
small round lace paper
buttered toast or croutons of bread

Directions

Pile the cooked shrimp on the buttered toast or croutons.
Sprinkle each with a little coralline pepper or lobster coral.
Stand each canape on a small round lace paper.
Serve immediately while hot.

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.

Pepper + breadtop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together20,964 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Shrimp + breadtop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together360 recipes

Shared aroma: hexanol (green, fruity).
Shrimp + peppertop 24% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together3,692 recipes

Shared aroma: phenylethanol (rose, floral).