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A Small Dinner in Courses, with Dessert, &C. First Course.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Turbot and fennel work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and 8 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

Contains: shellfish (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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Recipe from a historical cookbook.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Turbot + fenneltop 14% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together8 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Turbot + saucetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together248 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Turbot + lobstertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together163 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Oyster + cucumbertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together190 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  5. Lobster + saucetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,095 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the fennel

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turbot, oyster, lobster, sauce, cucumber):

  1. Capersbetter flavor fit
  2. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  3. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  4. Fennelthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against turbot, oyster, lobster, sauce, cucumber. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).