Why it works: Whitefish and chicken work together. They rank in the top 32% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓
Baked Whitefish
Ingredients
Directions
Clean and wash the fish, then wipe it dry.
Rub the inside of the fish with coarse sea salt.
Prepare a dressing as you would for chicken and stuff the fish.
Sew up the fish and place it in a roasting pan with some hot water.
Bake until the fish is a nice brown, allowing about 15 minutes per pound.
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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Whitefish + chickentop 32% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together7 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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