Why it works: Oyster and parsley are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,211 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓
Boiled Fowl
Ingredients
Directions
Remove the crop from the fowl.
Fill the inside of the fowl with oysters.
Place the fowl in a jar and submerge it in a kettle of water.
Boil for 1.5 hours.
Make a white sauce with the gravy from the jar or serve the fowl plain.
Optionally, add chopped parsley to the sauce.
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 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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Oyster + parsleytop 22% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together2,211 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
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