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Smoked Cod's Roe Croutons.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Roe and butter work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 442 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, green. The science ↓

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Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat, fish (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. Roe + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together442 recipes

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

  2. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,036 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Butter + breadtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,145 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. White pepper + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  5. White pepper + lemontop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,657 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (roe, butter, bread, lemon, parsley):

  1. Thymebetter flavor fit
  2. Pepperbetter flavor fit
  3. Marjorambetter flavor fit
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against roe, butter, bread, lemon, parsley. 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).