Why it works: Fish and cream work together. They rank in the top 24% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 937 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓
Scalloped Fish
Ingredients
Directions
The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.
Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).
Season the thin slices of cold fish to your taste.
Dip the seasoned fish into cream or melted butter.
Arrange the fish in a baking dish and bake until heated through. Serve hot.
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.
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Fish + creamtop 24% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together937 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
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