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Herring Roe

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 20,964 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Herring Roe

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Dust the soft roes of herrings with cayenne or white pepper.

  2. Roll each roe in a slice of bacon.

  3. Fry the wrapped roes in bacon fat until cooked.

  4. Fry small rounds of bread in bacon fat until crispy and drain.

  5. Serve each herring roe on a crouton while very 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 + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

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

  2. Roe + breadtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together123 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  3. Roe + peppertop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together360 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

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