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Shrimps with Tomato Sauce

A simple dish of shrimp simmered in tomato sauce, seasoned with salt and cayenne, served with toast or small dishes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,469 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Shrimps with Tomato Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Make the sauce

  1. Prepare the tomato sauce in a chafing dish.

  2. Stir the shrimps into the tomato sauce.

  3. Bring to a boil and season with salt and cayenne.

Serve

  1. Serve on toast, in scallop shells, or in small dishes.

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 + saucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,469 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Tomato + shrimptop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,689 recipes

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

  3. Sauce + shrimptop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,423 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

Tomato sauce
Forms the liquid base and gives the dish its tomato flavour and acidity.
Shrimps
Provide the main protein, which firms and turns opaque as it heats.

The step that matters

Bring to a boil. Shrimp cook quickly in hot liquid. Once they turn opaque, extra heat toughens the protein and makes them rubbery, so hold the simmer brief.

Swap the tomato

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Welsh onionfits about as well
  3. Mustardfits about as well
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sauce, shrimp. 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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