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Shrimp Canape

A toasted bread slice topped with seasoned egg, shrimp, and watercress.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Shrimp Canape

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Toast the bread slices until golden brown.

  2. In a bowl, mix the well-beaten eggs with seasoning.

Cook the shrimps

  1. In a skillet, melt the butter over medium heat.

  2. Add the shrimps to the skillet and cook until heated through.

Assemble and serve

  1. Spread the egg mixture over the toasted bread.

  2. Top with the cooked shrimps and garnish with watercress.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Shrimp + buttertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,931 recipes

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

  3. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  4. Bread + watercresstop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together307 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the seasoned mixture and set on the toast to form a soft, custard-like base.
Bread
Provides a crisp, sturdy base that holds the egg and shrimp topping.
Shrimps
Main protein; they turn opaque and firm when heated through.
Butter
Adds fat and rich flavour while cooking the shrimps.

The step that matters

Cooking the eggs-and-shrimp topping gently. Eggs set through gentle heat; overcooking them makes them tough and dry, and overcooked shrimp also turn rubbery, so heat only until just cooked through.

“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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