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Sole Rolls

Sole fish rolls are breaded and fried fish fillets rolled into small cylinders.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 22,662 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Sole Rolls

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the soles

  1. Remove the backbone, head, fins, and tail from the soles.

  2. Sprinkle the inside with coarse sea salt.

  3. Roll the soles tightly from the tail end upwards and secure with a small skewer.

  4. If the soles are large, use half a sole for each roll.

Coat and fry

  1. Dip the rolls in the yolks of eggs, then coat with bread crumbs.

  2. Repeat the egg and bread crumb coating.

  3. Fry the rolls in lard until they are a beautiful color.

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. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Soles
Provide the flesh that is rolled and cooked as the main dish.
Egg yolks
Act as a binder that helps the bread crumbs adhere to the rolls.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating that browns during frying.
Lard
Conducts heat for frying and promotes browning of the coating.

The step that matters

Fry the rolls in lard until they are a beautiful color. Frying at a steady heat browns the bread crumb coating through the Maillard reaction while the thin fish inside cooks gently. Too hot and the coating darkens before the fish is cooked; too cool and the coating absorbs excess fat and turns greasy.

“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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