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Herrings a LA Simone

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Chervil and tarragon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 795 recipes mention both. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

Contains: fish (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

  1. Clean and cut the herring fillets into dice.

  2. In a bowl, combine the herring, diced cold boiled potatoes, diced russet apples, parsley, chervil, chopped fennel, and tarragon.

  3. Season the mixture with oil, vinegar, coarse sea salt, and black pepper.

  4. Shape the mixture to resemble herring.

  5. Attach the reserved heads and tails at each end of the imitation herring.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Chervil + tarragontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together795 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Fennel + tarragontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together132 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  3. Parsley + tarragontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,259 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together34,118 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Parsley + fenneltop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together625 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, parsley, chervil, fennel, tarragon, vinegar, pepper):

  1. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  2. Limebetter flavor fit
  3. Orangebetter flavor fit
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, parsley, chervil, fennel, tarragon, vinegar, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

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