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Crab Flakes in Tartar Sauce

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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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 ↓

Crab Flakes in Tartar Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix the crab flakes with tartar sauce.

  2. Serve chilled in small glasses or double glasses surrounded by ice.

  3. Serve with hot toasted crackers.

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. Crab + saucetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together238 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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