Why it works: Lemon and shrimp are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,923 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓
Shell-fish
Ingredients
Directions
Squeeze the lemon juice.
Cut your cover in half and place it on top, two inches apart, to allow visibility of the contents.
Bake the crawfish, shrimps, or prawns in the same manner.
Serve on plates or in small dishes for a second course.
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 pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.
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Lemon + shrimptop 18% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together1,923 recipes
Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
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