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Shrimp Patties

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,491 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Shrimp Patties

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a quick oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

  1. Roll out flaky pastry fairly thin and stamp out rounds with a tumbler.

  2. Stamp three smaller rounds with a glass and cut a hole in the center of each.

  3. Place the three rings on a round pastry, add a piece of dry bread in the center, and top with a small round of pastry.

  4. Bake in a 400°F (200°C) oven until golden.

  5. Once baked, lift onto a sieve, remove the tops, and take out the bread.

  6. Fill the pastry with boiled shrimps mixed with white sauce, cayenne pepper, lime juice, and amchoy sauce.

  7. Place the small round of pastry back on top.

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. Pepper + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,491 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Shrimp + limetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together808 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Shrimp + saucetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,423 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Bread + shrimptop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together360 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanol (green, fruity).

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

Swap the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, shrimp, sauce, pepper):

  1. Limethe original
  2. Avocadofits about as well
  3. Lemonfits about as well
  4. Mangofits about as well

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

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