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Why it works: Parsley and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Fish and Shell Fish

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Fried Frog Legs. Dry legs, roll in flour, shake free from ex- tra flour, dip in beaten egg mixed with a little milk, pepper and salt, roll in very fine cracker crumbs, and fry in deep fat. Garnish with minced parsley and slices of lemon.

  2. To Bake Fish. Clean, and bake on a greased dish-sheet placed in dripping pan. If fish-sheet is not at hand, place strips of cotton cloth under fish, by which it may be lifted from pan.

  3. To Fry Fish: Clean fish, and wipe as dry as possible, sprinkle with salt, dip in flour or crumbs, egg, and crumbs and fry in deep fat.

  4. To Saute Fish. Prepare as for frying, and cook in frying pan with small amount of fat; or, if preferred, dip in granulated corn meal.

  5. Stuffing for Baked Fish. Mix i cup bread crumbs, 3 table- spoons melted butter, 1 teaspoon minced parsley, 1 of minced onion, 1 of Worcestershire, 1 teaspoon each capers, gherkins, and olives chopped fine, 1 teaspoon tomato catsup, 1 of lemon juice or vinegar. Add enough water to make it soft enough to stuff.

  6. Spanish Salmon. Fry a large onion in hot olive oil or lard. Add Yz can tomatoes and little water and when onions are well cooked add a small can of salmon, salt, pepper, and large green sweet pepper if you have it. A little cayenne pepper improves all Spanish dishes. Mrs. Edith Harris.

  7. Salmon Puffs. Chop meat from 1 can salmon, add 1 table- spoon melted butter, saltspoon salt and pepper, Y/2 cup bread crumbs, 1 tablespoon lemon juice and 3 well beaten eggs. Mix thoroughly and pack in cups about full. Set cups in pan of water and bake one-half hour. Turn out on hot platter and put a sprig of parsley in the top of each puff. Pour around the following sauce : Pour slowly over the well beaten yolks of two eggs, 1 cup of hot sweet cream. Set the bowl in hot water and stir until thick, taking care

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  10. not to let boil. Add saltspoon of salt, half as much pepper and a

  11. tablespoon of lemon juice.

  12. Crab Flake Cocktail. Chop fine the inner stalks of a head of celery, a small green pepper, from which seeds have been taken, and the flesh of six green olives. Mix with this 2-3 cup of mayonnaise dressing and 1-3 cup of tomato catsup. Have ready a little more than an equal bulk of crab meat flaked. Put small amount of cock- tail sauce in cocktail glasses, then a layer of crab meat ; continue lay- ers having crab meat at top. Let stand an hour or more before serving and serve very cold.

  13. Deviled Salmon, Oysters or Chicken. 25 oysters or 1 cup of salmon or chicken, }2 pint cream (part milk will do), 1 tablespoon- ful of butter. 2 tablespoons flour, yolks 2 eggs. Salt and cayenne pepper to taste. Chopped parsley if desired. Put cream on to boil, rub flour and butter together and stir into the cream when boiling. As soon as it thickens take from fire, and add other ingredients. Beat yolks of eggs before adding them. Fill shells or baking dishes with this mixture, sprinkle with cracker crumbs, and brown in quick oven.

  14. Mrs. Edith Harris.

  15. Salmon Loaf. Pick one can of salmon and remove bones, add

  16. 1 tablespoon of melted butter, two beaten eggs, one cup of bread or cracker crumbs, one cup of milk, salt and pepper to taste. Bake in a buttered pan one hour. Turn loaf out on a platter when done and pour over gravy.

  17. Gravy : Heat 1 pint of milk to boiling point, 1 tablespoon but- ter, season with salt and pepper. 2 tablespoons corn starch.

  18. Mrs. C. J. Gohhnan.

  19. Salmon Loaf With Cucumber Sauce. 1 pound of canned sal- mon. \'2 tablespoon each of sugar and flour, 1 tablespoon melted but- ter. 1 teaspoon salt, ½ teaspoon mustard, dash of cayenne, yolks of

  20. 2 eggs well beaten. % cup cream or milk, y± cup vinegar. Pick over salmon and put with other ingredients, after carefully blending them in, a double boiler. Cook eggs until done. Remove from fire and add 3 tablespoons gelatine, softened in cold water. Mould, chill and serve with cucumber sauce.

  21. Cucumber Sauce : y> cup cream beaten, season with salt, pep- per and onion juice. Add 2 tablespoons vinegar and one cucumber chopped fine and drain as dry as possible. Lena A. S. Blessing.

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  24. Creamed Oysters, i pint oysters, ½ pint cream, i tablespoon flour, i teaspoon salt and a pinch of cayenne pepper. Cook oysters in their own liquor until edges begin to curl; then drain. Cook cream in double boiler thickened with flour and butter, add oysters and serve.

  25. Fried Oysters. Lay upon clean cloth and press another lightly over them; prepare crackers by crushing fine; beat two eggs, tea- spoon salt and pepper in a bowl ; dip each oyster in crumbs, then in egg and again in crumbs, until well encrusted ; let stand an hour in cool place. Fry to a delicate brown in hot lard and butter (half of each) and serve at once on hot platter. Mrs. W . A. Edson.

  26. Scalloped Oysters. I pint oysters, 4 tablespoons oyster liquor,

  27. 2 tablespoons milk or cream, ½ cup stale bread crumbs, 1 cup cracker crumbs, ½ cup melted butter, salt and pepper. Mix bread and cracker crumbs and stir in butter. Put a thin layer in bottom of a buttered baking-dish, cover with oysters, and sprinkle with salt and pepper; add one half each oyster liquor and cream. Repeat, and cover top with remaining crumbs. Bake 30 minutes in hot oven. Never allow more than 2 layers of oysters for scalloped oysters ; if

  28. 3 layers are used, the middle layer will be underdone.

  29. Oyster Boulettes. To 1 cup minced oysters add 1 cup soft bread crumbs, salt, pepper, bit of mace, and a beaten egg. Put on ice for 2 hours, then drop small spoonfuls in hot butter in spider and cook quickly on both sides. Serve with tomato sauce.

  30. Oyster Pie. Drain 1 ½ pints large oysters, add 2 cups cream, pepper, salt, and dash nutmeg, and enough fine cracker crumbs to thicken. Line a buttered dish with puff paste, put in mixture, put an inverted cup in centre, cover with the paste, and bake of an hour.

  31. Oyster Cocktail. 8 small raw oysters, 1 tablespoon tomato catsup, ½ tablespoon vinegar or lemon juice, 2 drops Tabasco, salt, 1 teaspoon celery, finely chopped, ½ teaspoon Worcestershire Sauce. Mix ingredients, chill thoroughly, and serve in cocktail glasses, or cases made from green peppers placed on a bed of crushed ice.

  32. Panned Oysters. Clean 1 pint large oysters. Place in drip- ping pan small oblong pieces of toast, put an oyster on each piece, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and bake until oysters are plump.

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  37. Serve with lemon butter : — Cream 3 tablespoons butter, add ^ tea- spoon salt, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, and a few grains cayenne.

  38. Lobster Cutlets. 1 can lobsters, 2 heaping tablespoons butter, ½ cup milk, 1 teaspoon lemon juice, 1 teaspoon salt, paprika, 1 whole egg, 1 tablespoon flour, 1 teaspoon white pepper. Cook together and add lobster. Spread on platter to cool. Shape into 12 cutlets. Roll

  39. in egg and cracker crumbs. Fry.

  40. Sauce : — Mayonnaise dressing, 1 teaspoon capers, 3 olives, 2 gherkins, red pepper, onion juice and Worcestershire sauce.

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  42. Shell Belts— "Nasby," 136 Main Street

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1324Calories
62 gProtein
51 gFat
152 gCarbs

Counts 22 of 24 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 22 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Salmon100g cooked208
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Oyster6 medium (84g)81
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Cracker5 saltine crackers (15g)66
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Nutmeg1 tsp ground (2.2g)12
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Cayenne1 tsp (1.8g)6
Olive1 large (4g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Capers1 tbsp (9g) drained2
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Liquornot in our table0
Macenot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Congregational Church (Maquoketa, Iowa) (Woman's Society). 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.

Explore the science

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. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

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

  2. Parsley + caperstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,550 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Capers + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,222 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Capers + flourtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,024 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Capers + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together568 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (parsley, capers, bread, lemon, cream, salmon, flour):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Arrowrootfits better
  3. Chivefits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against parsley, capers, bread, lemon, cream, salmon, flour. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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