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Sturgeon, Sauce for

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Salmon and sturgeon work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 35 recipes. Both carry 2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, green. The science ↓

Sturgeon, Sauce for

Ingredients

Directions

  1. If broiling or frying sturgeon, serve with a piquant sauce or any sauce that usually accompanies salmon.

  2. For stewed sturgeon, strain the simmering liquid.

  3. Thicken the strained liquid and pour it over the sturgeon or serve it in a tureen.

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. Salmon + sturgeontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together35 recipes

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

  2. Sauce + sturgeontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together93 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Sauce + salmontop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,765 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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