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Fried Flounders

A simple fried fish dish using flounders seasoned with salt and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 85,593 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Fried Flounders

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Clean the flounders and remove any scales.

  2. Season with salt and pepper.

Fry and serve

  1. Heat butter or oil in a frying pan over medium heat.

  2. Fry the flounders until golden brown on both sides.

  3. Serve hot.

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. Pepper + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Flounders
Main protein; the fish cooks through and forms the dish's body.
Butter or oil
Conducts heat evenly in the pan and helps the fish brown.

The step that matters

Frying the flounders until golden brown. Fish is delicate and sticks or tears if the pan is not hot enough or the fish is moved too early. A properly heated pan and fat create a crisp, browned surface that releases cleanly when the fish is ready to turn.

“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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