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Fish Supper

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 18 ingredients
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Why it works: Sauce and smelt match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 103 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Fish Supper

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Serve raw oysters on a block of ice.

  2. Prepare shad with maitre d'hotel sauce and garnish with smelts.

  3. Cook sweetbreads and serve with tomato sauce.

  4. Boil sardines and serve on toast.

  5. Prepare deviled chicken with cunard sauce.

  6. Cook fillets of duck and serve with a salad of lettuce.

  7. Make mayonnaise of salmon and garnish with shrimps.

  8. Prepare Welsh rarebit.

  9. Serve Charlotte Russe.

  10. Finish with ice cream and cake.

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. Sauce + smelttop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together103 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Tomato + lettucetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,655 recipes

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

  3. Tomato + chickentop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,031 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  4. Oyster + salmontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together672 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  5. Oyster + shrimptop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together531 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

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

Swap the lettuce

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (oyster, sauce, smelt, tomato, chicken, salmon, shrimp):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Onionfits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Lettucethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against oyster, sauce, smelt, tomato, chicken, salmon, shrimp. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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