Name: Sold By All First Glass Grocers
Ingredients: one-third butter; pepper; salt

Sold By All First Glass Grocers

A seasoning product used to flavor soups, gravies, and sauces.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription

By Mansfield, W. H., & co., Putnam, Conn., pub. [from old catalog] · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients

Why it works: Butter and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and 85,512 recipes mention both. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Sold By All First Glass Grocers

Ingredients

one-third butter
pepper
salt

Directions

Season fish with pepper and salt.
Roll in fine bread crumbs or corn meal.
Fry in one-third butter and two-thirds lard.

By Mansfield, W. H., & co., Putnam, Conn., pub. [from old catalog]. 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. See the original page.

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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.

Butter + peppertop 11% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together85,512 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Butter: Adds rich flavor and browning to the fried coating.
Lard (in the method): Provides a high-temperature frying fat that gives the coating a crisp, golden surface.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.