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Little Anchovy Pies

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Little Anchovy Pies

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut new anchovies into pieces and soak them in water to remove excess salt.

  2. Dry the anchovies with a towel and soak them for 2 to 3 hours in a mixture of oil, peppercorns, parsley, and chopped shallots.

  3. Remove some anchovy pieces and set them aside. Chop the remaining anchovies finely.

  4. Mix the chopped anchovies with grated soft bread, lemon peel, and 1 or 2 eggs.

  5. Place small heaps of this mixture in the bottom crusts of puff pastry.

  6. Top each with 2 pieces of the reserved anchovies in a cross shape.

  7. Cover with another layer of puff pastry and brush the tops with egg yolk.

  8. Before serving, open the pies and squeeze a little lemon juice inside, then replace the crust and serve hot.

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. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Parsley + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,737 recipes

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

  3. Shallot + lemontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,523 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Shallot + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,245 recipes

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

  5. Bread + eggtop 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

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