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Conger-eel

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Coriander and cumin match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,866 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Conger-eel

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Clean and prepare the conger eel, removing the head and intestines.

  2. Season the eel with pepper, coriander, cumin, wild marjoram, dried onion, and crushed hard-boiled egg yolks.

  3. Mix in vinegar, sweet wine, garum, and cooked wine to create a sauce.

  4. Fry the seasoned eel until cooked through.

  5. Serve hot with the sauce drizzled over the top.

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. Coriander + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,866 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Pepper + marjoramtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,609 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Cumin + marjoramtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together36 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  4. Coriander + marjoramtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together54 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Pepper + coriandertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,949 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

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 (pepper, coriander, cumin, marjoram, egg, vinegar, wine):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Tomatofits better
  3. Carrotfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, coriander, cumin, marjoram, egg, vinegar, wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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