Name: Devilled Crabs, Cold
Ingredients: crabs; Sauce Emmanuel; Sauce Tartare; Cucumber Sauce

Why it works: Crab and sauce work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 238 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Devilled Crabs, Cold

Ingredients

crabs
Sauce Emmanuel
Sauce Tartare
Cucumber Sauce

Directions

Prepare the crabs according to your usual method.
Allow the crabs to cool in their shells.
Serve the crabs very cold with your choice of sauce.

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.

Crab + saucetop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together238 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Crab + cucumbertop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together25 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
Sauce + cucumbertop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,174 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).