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Shrimp Salad

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Shrimp Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Marinate shrimp with salt, pepper, and lemon juice.

  2. Mix marinated shrimp with mayonnaise and serve on lettuce leaves.

  3. To make jelly, dissolve gelatin in water and mix with lemon juice.

  4. Wet individual molds and pour a little jelly into the bottom of each.

  5. Add several shrimp to each mold, then pour more jelly to cover.

  6. Place molds in a cold place to harden.

  7. To serve, turn out the molds onto lettuce leaves, cover with mayonnaise, and garnish with two or three shrimp.

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. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Pepper + lettucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Lemon + lettucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,559 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  4. Shrimp + lettucetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together430 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Shrimp + lemontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,923 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the lettuce

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (shrimp, pepper, lemon, gelatin):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Asparagusfits about as well
  3. Lettucethe original
  4. Spinachfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against shrimp, pepper, lemon, gelatin. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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