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Gold Fish

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and marjoram match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 687 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Gold Fish

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the gold fish by cleaning it thoroughly.

  2. In a bowl, mix together pepper, alisander, chopped carrots, wild marjoram, rue, mint, myrtle leaves, and yolk of eggs.

  3. Add honey, vinegar, oil, wine, and garum to the mixture.

  4. Combine all ingredients and cook slowly until homogeneous.

  5. Serve the gold fish with the prepared gravy.

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. Carrot + marjoramtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together687 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Marjoram + minttop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together94 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + carrottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,555 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + minttop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,372 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Swap the mint

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (fish, pepper, carrot, marjoram, myrtle, egg, honey):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Parsleyfits better
  3. Rosemaryfits better
  4. Mintthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against fish, pepper, carrot, marjoram, myrtle, egg, honey. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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