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Carp, Stewed

A carp stew made with wine, blood, bread crumbs, lemon, and barberries.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Wine and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,157 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Carp, Stewed

Ingredients

Directions

Make the sauce

  1. Preserve the blood of the carp and stir it into the wine.

Cook and serve

  1. Stew the carp in the wine and blood mixture.

  2. Thicken the sauce and pour it over the fish.

  3. Garnish with toasted bread, sliced lemon, and barberries.

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. Wine + lemontop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,157 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Bread + lemontop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,445 recipes

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

  3. Wine + breadtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together956 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

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

What each ingredient does

Carp
The main protein, cooked gently in the wine and blood mixture until tender.
Port or claret wine
Provides liquid for stewing and a sharp, fruity flavour that carries the sauce.
Bread crumbs
Thicken the sauce as they absorb liquid and soften.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (wine, bread):

  1. Applefits better
  2. Grapefits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

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

“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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