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Oyster Soup

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Why it works: Oyster and celery are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,131 recipes mention both. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Oyster Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove gills from oysters and prepare them for soup.

  2. Serve with toast, catsup, pickles, dressed celery, and cranberries.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Oyster + celerytop 20% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together1,131 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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