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Creamed Fish in Shells

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 19 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Creamed Fish in Shells

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare canned salmon by broiling it and spreading with maltre d'hôtel butter, or serve on toast with cream dressing.

  2. Make a white sauce and heat the salmon in it, or heat the fish in water and serve with Béarnaise sauce.

  3. For salmon cutlets, cut salmon into heart or chop shapes, roll in egg and bread crumbs, and fry in hot fat.

  4. Arrange cutlets in a circle and serve with Béarnaise, Hollandaise, or Tartare sauce.

  5. Marinate salmon slices for one hour, then broil on both sides, basting with butter to prevent browning.

  6. Serve broiled salmon on a hot dish, sprinkled with salt, pepper, lemon juice, and chopped parsley, with Béarnaise sauce or lemon quarters.

  7. Simmer salmon slices in court bouillon until done, then carefully remove and cool.

  8. Cover one side of the cooled salmon with a smooth layer of mayonnaise made with jelly, colored green, and arrange diced gherkins or capers around the edge.

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

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

  2. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, butter, cream, sauce, egg, bread, pepper):

  1. Lemonthe original
  2. Avocadofits about as well
  3. Coconutfits less well
  4. Figfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, butter, cream, sauce, egg, bread, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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