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A Swedish Fish-Soup

A Swedish Fish Soup is a broth of boiled fish heads and bones with dried mushrooms, served with fried fish pieces.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Fish and mushroom work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 444 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

A Swedish Fish-Soup

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Skin and bone the fish.

  2. Boil the heads and bones in water with salt and dried mushrooms for flavor. Remove the heads and bones from the broth.

Fry and serve

  1. Coat the fish pieces in egg and breadcrumbs.

  2. Fry the coated fish pieces until golden brown.

  3. Serve the fish in the broth.

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. Fish + mushroomtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together444 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Pan-fish
Provides the main protein, cooked by frying and served in the broth.
Dried mushrooms
Adds a savory, earthy aroma to the broth while the bones simmer.

The step that matters

Fry the coated fish pieces until golden brown.. Browning comes from the Maillard reaction at the surface, so the oil must be hot enough to brown the coating while the fish cooks through without burning.

“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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