Name: Oyster Cannelons a LA Whitstable
Ingredients: oysters soaked in lemon juice; mushrooms; Allemande sauce; puff pastry; warm fat; fried parsley for garnish

Why it works: Lemon and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Oyster Cannelons a LA Whitstable

Ingredients

Directions

Chop the soaked oysters and mushrooms.
Mix the chopped oysters and mushrooms with stiffly reduced Allemande sauce.
Roll out puff pastry to 1/8 inch thickness.
Moisten the pastry surface with water.
Place portions of the mixture on the pastry, about 2 inches long and 1 inch wide.
Enclose each portion with pastry and press the edges together.
Roll the cannelons to a cork shape.
Fry the cannelons in warm fat until golden.
Drain and serve on a napkin, garnished with fried parsley.

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.

Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together14,037 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Mushroom + parsleytop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together6,132 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Oyster + saucetop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,233 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Lemon + mushroomtop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,633 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Oyster + mushroomtop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,299 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).