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Oyster Soup a l'Anglaise

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Haddock and whiting match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 103 recipes mention both. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Oyster Soup a l'Anglaise

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the fish into small pieces and place in a stewpan.

  2. Cover the fish with water, about 2 inches above.

  3. Bring to a boil, then skim the surface.

  4. Add onions, celery, carrots, and the bouquet of herbs.

  5. Simmer gently for about 4 hours.

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. Haddock + whitingtop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together103 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Thyme + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  3. Carrot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8,053 recipes

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

  4. Celery + carrottop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  5. Celery + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together6,810 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (haddock, whiting, celery, carrot, thyme, parsley):

  1. Parsnipbetter flavor fit
  2. Shallotbetter flavor fit
  3. Turnipbetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against haddock, whiting, celery, carrot, thyme, parsley. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

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