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Fish and Clams, Seaside Fashion

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Clam and fish work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 50 recipes. Both carry (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, melon. The science ↓

Fish and Clams, Seaside Fashion

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).

  2. Take a tin box of sufficient size and depth.

  3. Place a layer of wet rock-weed in the bottom of the box.

  4. Add the clams on top of the rock-weed.

  5. Add another layer of rock-weed over the clams.

  6. Place the fish on top of the second layer of rock-weed.

  7. Cover with more rock-weed.

  8. If available, place a cover on the box.

  9. Bake in the oven for a sufficient time.

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. Clam + fishtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together50 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

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