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Dexter Canapes

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,539 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Dexter Canapes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut stale bread into ¼-inch slices and then into oval shapes.

  2. Toast one side and spread the untoasted side with anchovy butter.

  3. Cover each with a slice of tomato, the same size as the bread.

  4. Spread the tomato with mayonnaise dressing.

  5. Sprinkle with yolks of hard-boiled eggs forced through a potato ricer and finely chopped whites.

  6. Garnish with a ring of green pepper around the outside and a piece of olive and parsley in the center.

  7. Arrange on small plates covered with a lace paper doily for individual service.

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. Tomato + olivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,539 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Olive + parsleytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,649 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Tomato + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, anchovy, butter, egg, pepper, olive, parsley):

  1. Capsicumfits about as well
  2. Shallotfits about as well
  3. Tomatothe original
  4. Spinachfits about as well

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

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