Name: Lobster Butter
Ingredients: coral of 1 or 2 fresh hen lobsters; equal proportion of fresh firm butter

Why it works: Lobster and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,609 recipes. Both carry 2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, green. The science ↓

Lobster Butter

Ingredients

coral of 1 or 2 fresh hen lobsters
equal proportion of fresh firm butter

Directions

Pound the coral of the lobsters into a smooth paste.
Mix in an equal amount of fresh firm butter.

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 + buttertop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,609 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

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What each ingredient does

Lobster coral: Provides the rich flavour and orange colour that define the butter.
Butter: Carries the coral's flavour and gives the mixture a smooth, spreadable fat base.

“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.