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Why it works: Lemon and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Fried Frogs

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Scald the hind quarters in boiling water, rub them

  2. with lemon juice and boil for three minutes ; wipe them,

  3. dip them first in cracker dust, then in a mixture of two

  4. beaten eggs in half a cup of milk, seasoned with pepper

  5. and salt ; then again in cracker crumbs. When they

  6. are well covered with crumbs, fry in a mixture of hot

  7. lard and butter.

  8. TR ASK'S SEI.ECT SHORE MACKEREI..

  9. Take a mackerel, put it in soak over night in a pan of water, skin side up ; take it out and wipe it dr}^ with a towel, then fry it in butter, and serve hot. If preferred

  10. FISH AND OYSTERS. 17

  11. broil it, and put on hot butter; or if preferred it can be

  12. boiled in a pan of water, and then served with drawn

  13. CODFISH AXI> C'REA:*!.

  14. Freshen the codfish to taste ; turn off the water ; add

  15. milk and butter, and a small quantity of thickening;

  16. stir well ; break in two eggs, and serve wlien cooked.

  17. < OWFISII BATil.S.

  18. Boil and mash potatoes, and keej) Avarm for mixing with the codfish ; freshen the codfish, taking care not to freshen too much ; add to the codfish double amount of potatoes ; put in pork fat for seasoning, and milk enough to soften ; roll into balls, and fiy in hot pork fat until entirely brown.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

245Calories
15 gProtein
14 gFat
18 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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

By Fayette (Mo.). Baptist Church, Ladies of the. 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  2. Milk + lemontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,053 recipes

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

  3. Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

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

  4. Egg + lemontop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together44,316 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  5. Milk + peppertop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together26,984 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

Egg and lemon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 44,316 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

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