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Fried Fish and Fritta Mista

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Fish and corn work together. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 70 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Fried Fish and Fritta Mista

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no cooking times; the times in the steps were added in transcription, so check for doneness rather than trusting the clock.

  1. Heat oil in a frying pan over medium-high heat.

  2. Carefully add small fish to the hot oil.

  3. Fry until golden brown and crispy, about 3-5 minutes per side.

  4. Remove fish and drain on paper towels.

  5. Serve with slices of polenta.

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. Fish + corntop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together70 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

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