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Lobster Salad

A salad of lobster, lettuce, salad greens, beetroot, and dressing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Lettuce and beetroot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 678 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Lobster Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove the lobster from the tin and drain it well.

  2. Cut the lobster into neat pieces.

  3. Wash, dry, and chop the lettuce and small salad greens.

  4. Prepare the salad dressing according to your preferred recipe.

Assemble

  1. Mix half of the salad greens with the dressing.

  2. Arrange the lobster in the center of a serving dish.

  3. Top the lobster with the remaining dressing.

  4. Surround the lobster with the remaining salad greens.

  5. Garnish with sliced beetroot and the egg white left from the dressing.

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. Lettuce + beetroottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together678 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  2. Lobster + lettucetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together411 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

  3. Lobster + beetroottop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together94 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

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

What each ingredient does

Lobster
Provides the main protein and rich, sweet flavor at the centre of the salad.
Salad dressing
Adds moisture and fat that coat the greens and carry flavor across the dish.

Swap the beetroot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lobster, lettuce):

  1. Beetrootthe original
  2. Mustardfits about as well
  3. Cucumberfits less well
  4. Spinachfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against lobster, lettuce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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