Why it works: Milk and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and 26,983 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓
The recipe
Ingredients
Contains: milk, fish (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)
Also mentioned in the method: fish
Directions
Roll and grill the filleted sole.
Place the rolled sole slices upright in a serving dish.
Boil the bones of the sole in milk to make a thick white sauce.
Thicken the sauce with white roux and season with salt and pepper.
Pass the sauce through a tamis to make it smooth and thick.
Top each roll of fish with a small piece of chili skin and gherkin skin for garnish.
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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.
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Milk + peppertop 12% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together26,983 recipes
Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).
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