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Broiled Fish

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Broiled Fish

Why it works: Haddock and smelt share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Broiled Fish

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Clean and dry the fish thoroughly.

  2. Sprinkle the fish with salt and pepper.

  3. Grease the broiler well.

  4. For whole fish, broil first on the flesh side, then turn and broil on the skin side until browned and crisp.

  5. For fish slices, turn them often while broiling.

  6. Remove the fish to a hot serving dish.

  7. Spread softened butter over the fish and garnish with parsley and lemon.

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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Explore the science

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. Haddock + smelttop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Bluefish + haddocktop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Haddock + swordfishtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  5. Bluefish + smelttop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bluefish, haddock, salmon, swordfish, smelt, pepper, butter):

  1. Capersfits about as well
  2. Parsleythe original
  3. Garlicfits less well
  4. Gingerfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against bluefish, haddock, salmon, swordfish, smelt, pepper, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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