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Sturgeon Steak

Sturgeon steak prepared by soaking, seasoning, broiling, and serving with parsley and lemon.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Sturgeon Steak

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Skim the steaks carefully.

  2. Soak the steaks in cold salted water for 1 hour to remove the oily taste.

  3. Wipe each steak dry.

  4. Season each steak with salt.

Cook and serve

  1. Broil the steaks over hot coals on a buttered grill.

  2. Serve the steaks in a hot dish.

  3. Garnish with parsley.

  4. Accompany with sliced lemon.

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. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Butter + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together28,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  5. Sturgeon + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together237 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Sturgeon steaks
Firm, dense flesh that holds its shape over direct heat and forms the main body of the dish.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the grill surface brown while reducing sticking.
Lemon
Adds acidity that brightens the rich, mild flavour of the fish.

The step that matters

Soaking in cold salted water. The soak lightly seasons the flesh and draws out some surface fat, which is what reduces the oily taste. Skipping it leaves the fish tasting richer and heavier.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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