Name: TuRBOT, the New FxiENCH Fashion
Ingredients: 1 turbot; ½ cup melted butter; small potatoes; capers

Why it works: Potato and capers work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 224 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

TuRBOT, the New FxiENCH Fashion

Ingredients

1 turbot
½ cup melted butter
small potatoes
capers

Directions

Boil the turbot until cooked through.
Place the turbot on a serving dish without a napkin.
Pour the melted butter over the fish.
Surround the fish with well-boiled small potatoes.
Sprinkle a few capers on top and serve.

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.

Potato + caperstop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together224 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Butter + potatotop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together6,456 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
Turbot + caperstop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together47 recipes

Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).
Butter + caperstop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,637 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Turbot + buttertop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together372 recipes

Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).