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Fried Shad Roes

Fried shad roe are parboiled, chilled, coated in beaten egg and salted cracker crumbs, then fried in hot cooking fat.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Roe and egg work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 243 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Fried Shad Roes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Parboil the shad roes as directed.

  2. Chill them in ice water.

  3. Wipe them dry.

Coat and fry

  1. Roll in the beaten egg and then in the salted cracker crumbs.

  2. Fry in deep hot cooking fat heated to the boiling point before adding the roes.

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 + eggtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together243 recipes

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

  2. Egg + cottonseedtop 32% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together23 recipes

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

  3. Roe + cottonseedtop 44% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1 recipe

    Shared aroma: eugenol (clove, spicy).

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

What each ingredient does

Shad roes
Delicate eggs that firm up and turn tender-textured when parboiled and then fried.
Beaten egg
Acts as a binder that holds the cracker crumbs to the roes.
Salted cracker crumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating that browns in the hot fat.
Cooking fat
Conducts heat to cook the roes and crisp the coating evenly.

The step that matters

Heat the fat to the boiling point before adding the roes. Very hot fat sets the egg and crumb coating quickly, forming a crisp crust that absorbs less grease. If the fat is too cool, the coating soaks up oil and turns soggy and heavy.

“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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