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Fried Scallops

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Scallop and sauce work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 130 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Fried Scallops

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash and dry the scallops.

  2. Season with coarse sea salt and white pepper.

  3. Coat in fine bread crumbs, then dip in beaten egg, and coat again in bread crumbs.

  4. Arrange in a frying basket without touching each other.

  5. Plunge into a kettle of boiling fat and cook until golden brown.

  6. Serve with Tartare sauce.

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. Scallop + saucetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together130 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  3. Scallop + breadtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together64 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  4. White pepper + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,312 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

  5. Bread + saucetop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,934 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (scallop, bread, egg, sauce):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. White pepperthe original

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

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