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Fried Whiting

Fried Whiting is a fish dish cooked in boiling fat and served with Dutch sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Whiting and sauce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 236 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Fried Whiting

Ingredients

Directions

Fry

  1. Heat plenty of fat in a deep pan until boiling.

  2. Fry the whiting fish until nicely browned all over.

  3. Remove the fish and drain on a sheet of kitchen paper.

Serve

  1. Serve on an ornamental fish plate while hot with Dutch sauce.

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. Whiting + saucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together236 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Whiting + fishtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together317 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Fish + saucetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,487 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Whiting fish
The main protein, which cooks through in the hot fat and browns on the outside.
Dutch sauce
Served alongside the fish to add moisture and richness to each bite.

The step that matters

Frying in boiling fat. The fat must be at a full boil before the fish goes in. A hot fat seals the surface quickly, so the fish browns well and absorbs less grease. Cooler fat soaks in oil and turns the coating soggy.

“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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