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Lobster Salad

A salad of lobster meat, hard‑boiled eggs, and herbs dressed with a mayonnaise or remoulade sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Lobster and meat work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 909 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Lobster Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Make the sauce

  1. Prepare a sauce by pounding the coral of the lobster and rubbing it through a sieve.

  2. Gradually mix the coral with the mayonnaise or remoulade.

Assemble and serve

  1. Half fill a bowl with the salad herbs or shredded lettuces.

  2. Arrange the lobster meat and hard-boiled egg slices spirally or in a chain on top.

  3. Leave a space in the center and pour in the sauce.

  4. Garnish with a small salad on top and serve immediately.

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. Lobster + meattop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together909 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  2. Lobster + lettucetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together411 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

  3. Lettuce + meattop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together579 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  4. Meat + eggtop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,432 recipes

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

  5. Lobster + eggtop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,484 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

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

What each ingredient does

Lobster meat
Provides the main sweet, tender protein that forms the body of the salad.
Mayonnaise or remoulade
Adds fat and creaminess, binding the coral into a smooth, rich dressing.
Hard-boiled eggs
Add soft, creamy texture and mild richness to the salad.
Lobster coral
Gives the sauce a deep, concentrated lobster flavour and a rich colour.

The step that matters

Rubbing the coral through a sieve. Pounding and sieving breaks the roe into very fine particles, so the sauce becomes smooth rather than grainy when mixed with mayonnaise. Adding the coral gradually helps it blend evenly without lumps.

Swap the lettuce

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

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Mustardfits better
  3. Shallotfits about as well
  4. Lettucethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lobster, meat, egg. 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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