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Delicious Lobster

A baked lobster casserole with bread crumbs, butter, chutney, mustard, and lemon.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 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 ↓

Delicious Lobster

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Pick and chop the lobster finely.

  2. Mix the lobster with bread crumbs, melted butter, chutney, and mustard.

Assemble

  1. Line a casserole with buttered bread slices.

  2. Add the lobster mixture and cover with buttered crumbs.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake in a cooker oven for 20 minutes with heated perforated plates.

  2. Serve with cut lemon and 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.

Explore the science

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 + mustardtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,484 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  3. Lobster + mustardtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together394 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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

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

  5. Lobster + breadtop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together736 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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

What each ingredient does

Lobster
Provides the main protein and flavor of the casserole.
Bread crumbs
Absorb the melted butter and bind the lobster mixture into a soft filling.
Melted butter
Adds richness and moisture, and helps the crumb topping brown.
Chutney
Adds sweetness and acidity that balance the rich lobster and butter.
Made mustard
Adds sharp, savoury bite that cuts through the richness of the butter.

The step that matters

Bake in a cooker oven for 20 minutes with heated perforated plates.. Heated perforated plates help the heat reach the dish evenly from below, so the filling sets without drying out while the buttered crumbs brown on top. Watch the time, since overbaking toughens lobster.

Swap the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lobster, bread, butter):

  1. Shallotfits about as well
  2. Potatofits about as well
  3. Onionfits about as well
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lobster, bread, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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