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Broiled Bluefish, Deviled

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Bluefish and sauce share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 19 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Broiled Bluefish, Deviled

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Broil the bluefish until nearly done.

  2. Remove from the broiler and cover with a mixture of English mustard, Worcestershire sauce, and olive oil.

  3. Sprinkle bread crumbs over the fish.

  4. Return to the broiler and finish cooking over a brisk fire.

  5. Serve with pepper sauce mixed with English mustard.

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. Bluefish + saucetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together19 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Mustard + olivetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,950 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Mustard + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,430 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Olive + breadtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,091 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Olive + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,263 recipes

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

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

Swap the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bluefish, sauce, olive, bread, pepper):

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Onionfits about as well
  4. Mustardthe original

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

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