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Lobster Butter

A butter made from eggs of a hen lobster mixed with fresh butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 118,967 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Lobster Butter

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pound the eggs found under the tail of a hen lobster until they form a fine paste.

  2. Mix the egg paste with an equal weight of very fresh butter.

  3. Pass the mixture through a fine sieve.

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. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Lobster + buttertop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,609 recipes

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

  3. Egg + lobstertop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,484 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Provide the rich, savory flavor and color that give the butter its character.
Fresh butter
Carries the egg paste, adding fat, smoothness and a creamy spreadable texture.

The step that matters

Pass the mixture through a fine sieve. Sieving removes fibrous or lumpy bits so the butter spreads smoothly. Working the paste to a fine, even consistency before mixing with butter helps it blend without graininess.

“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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