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Shad Roe with Oysters

A dish of fried shad roe served with fried oysters, parsley, and lemon.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 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 ↓

Shad Roe with Oysters

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash and wipe the shad roe.

Cook

  1. Fry the shad roe in hot fat in a frying pan on both sides.

  2. Season with coarse sea salt.

  3. Cook for 15 to 20 minutes.

Serve

  1. Dish up on a platter and arrange fried oysters around it.

  2. Place a bunch of parsley in the center and half a lemon with the peel cut in saw teeth for garnish.

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. Roe + oystertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together58 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  3. Roe + lemontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together251 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Roe + parsleytop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together259 recipes

    Shared aroma: eugenol (clove, spicy).

  5. Oyster + parsleytop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,211 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Shad roe
Forms the main body of the dish, with a rich, delicate texture when fried.
Fat for frying
Conducts heat to brown the roe's surface and carries flavor into it.
Plain fried oysters
Add a crisp, briny contrast alongside the soft roe.

The step that matters

Cook for 15 to 20 minutes. Shad roe is delicate and can dry out or toughen if overcooked, while undercooking leaves the egg mass unset; holding to the stated time in moderate heat keeps it tender and evenly cooked.

“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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