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Lobster Fritters

A fried dish of finely chopped lobster mixed with breadcrumbs, butter, herbs, and egg yolk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 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 ↓

Lobster Fritters

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Chop the lobster meat, red part, and spawn very finely.

  2. Combine the chopped lobster, breadcrumbs, butter, salt, pepper, and sweet herbs in a bowl.

  3. Add the egg yolk and mix to form a paste.

Shape and fry

  1. Shape the mixture into pieces about 1.5 inches thick.

  2. Dip each piece in batter and fry in hot oil until golden brown.

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

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

  3. Meat + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,924 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Meat + lobstertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together909 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Lobster meat and spawn
Provides the main flavor and the tender, delicate body of the fritters.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and bind with the egg, giving the mixture body and structure.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture to the filling.
Egg yolk
Binds the mixture into a paste that holds its shape when fried.

The step that matters

Frying in hot oil. Oil that is too cool lets the batter soak up grease before it sets, while oil that is hot enough sets the batter quickly and browns it. Hot oil keeps the fritters crisp and stops the lobster inside from overcooking.

“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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