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Shad Roe a LA Newburgh

A dish of shad roe cooked in boiling water with salt and vinegar, then cut into pieces and served like lobster.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Roe and vinegar work together. They rank in the top 25% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 136 recipes. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓

Shad Roe a LA Newburgh

Ingredients

Directions

Poach the roe

  1. Plunge the shad roes into 1 quart of boiling water with salt and vinegar.

  2. Boil for 10 minutes, then drain.

Prepare and finish

  1. Cut the roes into 1‑inch pieces.

  2. Finish the dish as you would with lobster, being careful not to break the pieces.

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. Roe + vinegartop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together136 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

What each ingredient does

Shad roes
Main protein; poaching firms their delicate membrane so they hold together when cut.
Vinegar
Acidity in the poaching water helps the roe's delicate proteins set more firmly.

The step that matters

Handling the roe after boiling. Shad roe is fragile and its proteins are set but still tender after poaching. Rough cutting or stirring can break the pieces apart, so cut gently and keep the pieces intact while finishing the dish.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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