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Lobster Sauce

A sauce made from boiled lobster spawn, butter, and lobster meat.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Lobster Sauce

Why it works: Butter and beef are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,847 recipes. Both carry 2-furfurylthiol, which smells coffee, roasted. The science ↓

Lobster Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the lobster

  1. Boil the fresh hen lobster until cooked.

  2. Remove the spawn and red coral into a mortar.

  3. Add ½ ounce of butter to the mortar and pound until smooth.

  4. Rub the mixture through a fine sieve using the back of a wooden spoon.

  5. Cut the lobster meat into small squares or pull it apart with a fork.

Make the sauce

  1. Mix the pounded spawn with enough melted butter to combine well.

  2. Add the lobster meat to the mixture and warm gently without boiling.

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. Butter + beeftop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,847 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  2. Lobster + buttertop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,609 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  3. Lobster + beeftop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together137 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Hen lobster
Supplies the sweet meat and the spawn that give the sauce its flavour and body.
Butter
Pounded into the spawn and melted butter to carry richness and create a smooth, glossy texture.

The step that matters

Warm the lobster gently without boiling. High heat can toughen the delicate lobster meat and cause the butter emulsion to separate, leaving the sauce greasy and grainy.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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