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 ↓
How We Cook in Tennessee
Ingredients
Directions
Fried Red Snapper. — Cut in thin slices from the bone. Brown four or five crackers and roll them very fine. Beat well three or four eggs, and season them with salt and pepper. Have your lard ready, very hot. Dip the slices in the egg first, and then in the cracker. Have ready some parsley and butter, to make the gravy after the fish is taken out. — Gulf City Cook Book.
Baked Fish. — Clean thoroughly, sprinkle with salt an hour before cooking, fill with dressing and sew securely, sprinkle flour over it, baste with butter, place in pan and bake in mod- erate oven; allow one and one-half hours for good sized fish. Serve with drawn butter sauce. Garnish with sliced lemon.
Baked Fish. — Slice three or four lemons and a large onion together. Fill the fish with it, adding about two tablespoon- fuls of butter and enough salt to season. Strain the juice from one can of tomatoes over the fish and bake. — Mrs. J. F. Hirt.
Baked Fish — No. 4. — Make a dressing of light bread, sea- soned with butter, pepper, salt, and onion chopped fine. Fill the fish with this ; then put in a pan, sprinkle with flour, and put on a little butter, pepper and salt. Cover with tomatoes, and bake slowly. Pour half a pint of water into the pan, and baste occasionally.
Baked Red Snapper. — Make a dressing of bread-crumbs sea- soned with butter, pepper and salt and an onion chopped fine. Fill the fish with this, then put it in a pan, on a piece of tin, that it may be lifted out easily. Put on butter, pepper and salt, cover with half can tomatoes, and bake slowly. Pour half pint of water into pan and baste occasionally. When the fish is done slice over it three hard boiled eggs. Stir into the gravy one tablespoon tomato catsup and one tablespoon Worcester sauce. Serve the gravy in a bowl. Bake from half hour to one hour, according to the size of fish. — Mrs. H. E. Lancaster.
Fish a la Creme. — Take any kind of fish boiled. Pick the fish to pieces, removing the bones. Mix one pint rich milk with two tablespoons flour, a large tablespoon of butter, salt. Set on the
Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)
Counts 8 of 10 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume: 8 portions
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Flour | 1 cup (125g) all-purpose | 455 |
| Milk | 1 cup (244ml) whole | 149 |
| Butter | 1 tbsp (14g) | 102 |
| Egg | 1 large egg (50g) | 78 |
| Tomato | 1 medium (123g) | 22 |
| Lemon | juice of 1 lemon (48ml) | 12 |
| Black Pepper | 1 tsp ground (2.3g) | 6 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
| Water | not in our table | 0 |
| Sauce | not in our table | 0 |
One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.
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.
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Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together27,047 recipes
Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
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Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together81,283 recipes
Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
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Tomato + peppertop 7% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together17,923 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
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Tomato + lemontop 11% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together4,592 recipes
Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
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Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together124,287 recipes
Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 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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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, butter, egg, lemon, sauce, flour, pepper):
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Fit is the average pairing score against milk, butter, egg, lemon, sauce, flour, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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