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Curry of Fish

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

Curry of Fish

Ingredients

Directions

  1. If using maigre, prepare gravy with fish stock; otherwise, use beef or veal broth with boiled onion and carrot.

  2. Thicken the broth with butter mixed with browned flour.

  3. Bone the fish and cut into neat pieces.

  4. Rub the fish with flour and fry in butter until light brown.

  5. Drain the fried fish on a sieve.

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 + haddocktop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together103 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Turbot + whitingtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together33 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Turbot + haddocktop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together12 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Onion + carrottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together21,601 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Fish + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,488 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

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

Swap the carrot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turbot, whiting, haddock, fish, onion, butter, flour):

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Carrotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against turbot, whiting, haddock, fish, onion, butter, flour. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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