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Shrimps Newberg

A shrimp dish with sherry, cream, eggs, mushrooms, and seasonings served over toast.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Shrimps Newberg

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the shrimp

  1. Melt the butter in a chafing dish.

  2. Add the shrimps and cook for 3 minutes after pouring in the sherry.

Finish and serve

  1. Stir in the whipped cream, beaten eggs, and seasonings.

  2. Serve with toast.

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. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  2. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Shrimp + buttertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,931 recipes

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

  5. Sugar + saucetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,147 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Shrimps
Provide the main protein and most of the substance of the dish.
Whipped cream
Adds richness and a smooth, creamy body to the sauce.
Eggs
Thicken the sauce as they gently set with the heat.
Sherry
Adds aroma and depth of flavor to the sauce.
Butter
Adds fat and flavor for cooking the shrimp.
Mushrooms
Add earthy flavor and a tender, meaty texture.

The step that matters

Stir in the beaten eggs. Eggs thicken when gently heated but scramble if the mixture is too hot or they are added too quickly. Stirring them in steadily over moderate heat helps them blend smoothly into the cream and sherry sauce.

“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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