Name: Shrimp Sauce
Ingredients: shrimps; butter; 1 lemon

Why it works: Shrimp and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,931 recipes. Both carry 2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, green. The science ↓

Shrimp Sauce

Ingredients

shrimps
butter
1 lemon

Directions

If the shrimps are not picked at home, wash them with a little water.
Melt butter in a pan until thick and smooth.
Add the shrimps to the melted butter and bring to a boil.
Squeeze in the juice of one lemon and stir well.

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 + buttertop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,931 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).
Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together41,227 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Shrimp + lemontop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,923 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).