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Fried Smelts

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Smelt and egg work together. They rank in the top 38% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 174 recipes. The science ↓

Fried Smelts

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Open the smelts at the gills and remove the insides.

  2. Wash them clean and wipe them dry.

  3. Roll the smelts in meal or egg-crumbs.

  4. Heat the cooking fat until it is boiling hot.

  5. Fry the smelts without crowding them until they are crisp and brown.

  6. Do not sprinkle with salt until they are nearly done.

  7. Drain the fried smelts on a cloth and serve immediately.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Smelt + eggtop 38% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together174 recipes

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

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