Why it works: Whiting and pepper work together. They rank in the top 30% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 374 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓
Quenelles of Whiting
Ingredients
Directions
Cut the fillets from the whiting and chop the bones.
Boil the bones with ½ pint of white stock to extract flavor.
Scrape the flesh from the skin of the fillets.
Pound the flesh in a mortar and rub it through a wire sieve.
Place the sieved mixture on a plate.
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.
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Whiting + peppertop 30% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together374 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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