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To Cook Shad Roe

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Roe and flour work together. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 177 recipes. Both carry eugenol, which smells clove, spicy. The science ↓

To Cook Shad Roe

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Bring a pot of water to a boil.

  2. Add the shad roe and cook for a few minutes.

  3. Remove the roe and drain it.

  4. Season with salt and pepper.

  5. Dredge the roe in flour.

  6. Fry in a pan until golden brown.

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. Roe + flourtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together177 recipes

    Shared aroma: eugenol (clove, spicy).

  2. Pepper + flourtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together50,459 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Roe + peppertop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together360 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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