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Broiled Shad Roes

Broiled shad roes are parboiled, chilled, marinated in lemon juice and salad oil, then broiled until browned and served with lemon sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Roe and sauce work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 142 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Broiled Shad Roes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Parboil the shad roes in salted water for 10 minutes.

  2. Transfer them to ice water until cold and firm.

  3. Marinate the roes in lemon juice and salad oil for 1 hour.

Broil and serve

  1. Wipe them lightly and broil until nicely browned, turning several times.

  2. Serve with lemon 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. Roe + saucetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together142 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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

  3. Lemon + saucetop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,598 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Shad roes
Main protein; parboiling firms the delicate roe so it holds together under the broiler.
Lemon juice
Acidity that flavours the roe and loosens its surface during marinating.
Salad oil
Fat that carries flavour and helps the roe brown evenly under heat.
Lemon sauce
Bright, acidic accompaniment that complements the rich, mild roe.

The step that matters

Wipe lightly and broil until nicely browned. Surface moisture and uneven turning can cause steaming or scorching instead of browning. Light wiping removes excess liquid, and turning several times exposes all sides to heat so the roe cooks through without drying.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Lemonthe original
  2. Avocadofits about as well
  3. Limefits less well
  4. Grapefits less well

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

“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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