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Fish Pie

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Sauce and capers work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 678 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Fish Pie

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Make a short dough and roll it to the thickness of a straw.

  2. Butter the holes of an egg pan and line each hole with the dough.

  3. Fill the holes with dry peas and bake until light brown.

  4. Remove the peas when done.

  5. Pick the fish into small pieces and add a couple of spoonfuls of white sauce and a few capers.

  6. Heat the mixture in a small stew pan in hot water.

  7. Fill the hot pastry with the fish mixture.

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. Sauce + caperstop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together678 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Butter + fishtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,488 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Fish + caperstop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together165 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

  4. Peas + caperstop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together97 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Peas + fishtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together90 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, fish, sauce, capers):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Pistachiofits better
  3. Almondfits better
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, fish, sauce, capers. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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