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Border of Fish Quenelle

A quenelle of whiting with a fluted border, baked until firm.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Whiting and flour work together. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 303 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Border of Fish Quenelle

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the quenelles

  1. Roll out the remains of the quenelles of whiting into two equal lengths, using a little flour.

  2. Take a silver oval dish or a china dish and place the rolled quenelles within an inch of the edge.

  3. Flatten the quenelles and create a part circle in the center using a hot spoon dipped in hot water.

  4. Make a nice fluted border and place the dish in the oven at 350°F (175°C) to set the quenelle.

Set and hold

  1. Once firm, place the dish in a warm area until ready to use.

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. Whiting + flourtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together303 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

Whiting
Forms the delicate fish base that sets into the quenelle's structure when heated.
Flour
Light dusting that keeps the quenelle mixture from sticking while it is rolled and shaped.

The step that matters

Setting the quenelles in the oven. Heat must be gentle and even so the fish mixture firms into a set shape without drying out, cracking, or puffing. Overheating causes it to toughen and weep.

“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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