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Shad Roe Salad

A salad of boiled shad roe mixed with white cream sauce, cold potatoes, parsley, and sliced eggs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,023 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Shad Roe Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Boil fish eggs in salted water with onion and vinegar for 15 minutes.

  2. Cool and break apart the fish eggs.

Make and shape the salad

  1. Mix the fish eggs with White Cream Sauce and cold cooked potatoes.

  2. Form the mixture into balls and roll in minced parsley.

Garnish and serve

  1. Garnish with sliced eggs and parsley.

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. Onion + potatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Potato + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,855 recipes

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

  3. Onion + parsleytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Sauce + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Onion + vinegartop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,226 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

What each ingredient does

Fish eggs
Provide the main protein and rich flavor, setting firm when boiled and cooled.
Cold cooked potatoes
Add body and bulk, helping the mixture hold its shape when formed into balls.
White cream sauce
Binds the fish eggs and potatoes together and adds moisture and creaminess.

The step that matters

Boil fish eggs in salted water with onion and vinegar for 15 minutes.. Boiling firms the egg proteins so they break apart cleanly, while overcooking can make them rubbery and dry. Cooling before mixing keeps the cream sauce from thinning.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (fish, egg, onion, vinegar, sauce, potato, cream):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Garlicfits better
  3. Tarragonfits about as well
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against fish, egg, onion, vinegar, sauce, potato, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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