Name: Cukries, Potted Meats, Etc
Ingredients: meat; liquid (as needed); prawns; shrimps; boiled lobster flesh; currie sauce

Why it works: Lobster and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,095 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Cukries, Potted Meats, Etc

Ingredients

Directions

Simmer the meat in a thick pulp until cooked, about 45 minutes to 1 hour.
If the mixture becomes too dry, add additional liquid.
Slowly heat prawns, shrimps, or boiled lobster flesh in the curry sauce before serving.

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.

Lobster + saucetop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,095 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Shrimp + lobstertop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together403 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).
Meat + shrimptop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together584 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Meat + lobstertop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together909 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Shrimp + saucetop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,423 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).