Name: Filet of Flounder with White Wine
Ingredients: ½ pound flounder filet; ¼ teaspoon salt; ¼ teaspoon pepper; ⅓ cup white wine; 2 teaspoons fish stock

Why it works: White wine and fish work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 370 recipes. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Filet of Flounder with White Wine

Ingredients

Directions

Season the flounder fillet with salt and pepper.
Place the fillet in a bag with white wine and fish stock.
Cook for 20 minutes.

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.

White wine + fishtop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together370 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).
Pepper + white winetop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together5,433 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Pepper + fishtop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together3,948 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).