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From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and olive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 999 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat, fish (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Also mentioned in the method: butter

Directions

  1. Catch bass or trout and prepare it with salt-pork or bacon.

  2. For boiling, place fish in cold, salted water to firm it up.

  3. Wrap the fish in a cloth bag and boil in cold water.

  4. For frying, clean, wash, and dry the fish thoroughly.

  5. Dip the fish in beaten egg yolk, then coat with bread crumbs or flour.

  6. Fry in boiling lard until light brown and serve hot.

  7. For broiling, wash and dry the fish, then split it.

  8. Broil with skin up, turning when browned, and mop with butter mixed with pepper and salt.

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.

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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.

  1. Bread + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together999 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Pork + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,980 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  3. Pork + breadtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,342 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  4. Egg + breadtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together22,584 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. Pork + eggtop 19% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together9,829 recipes

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

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