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How We Cook in Tennessee

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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 ↓

How We Cook in Tennessee

Ingredients

Directions

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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)

824Calories
29 gProtein
26 gFat
118 gCarbs

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
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Saucenot 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 Jackson (Tenn.). First Baptist Church. The Silver Thimble 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.

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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 + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Tomato + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Tomato + lemontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,592 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked 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

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, butter, egg, lemon, sauce, flour, pepper):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Tomatothe original

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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