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Stuffing for Fish

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Stuffing for Fish

Why it works: Thyme and marjoram match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,225 recipes. Both carry terpineol, which smells pine, woody. The science ↓

Stuffing for Fish

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a bowl, combine the chopped fat pork and butter.

  2. Add parsley, thyme, sweet marjoram, salt, pepper, and chopped oysters.

  3. Mix in the beaten eggs and enough bread crumbs to bind the mixture.

  4. Stuff the mixture into the fish before cooking.

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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Explore the science

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. Thyme + marjoramtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,225 recipes

    Shared aroma: terpineol (pine, woody).

  2. Parsley + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  3. Parsley + marjoramtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,979 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  4. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  5. Marjoram + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,609 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

Swap the marjoram

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, butter, parsley, thyme, pepper, oyster, egg):

  1. Marjoramthe original
  2. Sagefits about as well
  3. Tarragonfits less well
  4. Winter savoryfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, butter, parsley, thyme, pepper, oyster, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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