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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Fried Fish

Why it works: Wheat and tomato work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 468 recipes. Both carry 1-nonanal, which smells fatty, waxy. The science ↓

Fried Fish

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut off the head and backbone of the fish, then slice the body into five or six pieces.

  2. Dip the fish pieces in Indian meal or wheat flour, then in the beaten egg, and finally in bread crumbs.

  3. Heat hot lard or salt pork in a thick-bottomed skillet until boiling hot.

  4. Place the fish in the skillet, skin side up, and fry slowly.

  5. Turn the fish when it is light brown and serve with tomato sauce or lemon slices.

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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Explore the science

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. Wheat + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together468 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-nonanal (fatty, waxy).

  2. Bread + tomatotop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,013 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Wheat + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together209 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  4. Fish + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,668 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Pork + tomatotop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,843 recipes

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

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

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (fish, wheat, egg, bread, pork):

  1. Potatofits about as well
  2. Asparagusfits about as well
  3. Tomatothe original
  4. Capsicumfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against fish, wheat, egg, bread, pork. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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