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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Fish Recipes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Season the fish with pepper, coarse sea salt, a pinch of cayenne, and anchovy essence.

  2. Bring the mixture to a boil, then stir in the egg yolk.

  3. Pour the sauce over the fish and mix thoroughly.

  4. Allow the mixture to cool completely.

  5. Take a piece the size of an egg and shape it into a cutlet on a floured board.

  6. Dip the cutlet into the beaten egg, then coat it with bread crumbs.

  7. Fry the cutlet in plenty of boiling fat until golden.

  8. Arrange the cutlets on a paper-lined dish, garnish with a parsley bunch, and serve.

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. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Anchovy + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,260 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanol (green, fruity).

  3. Anchovy + eggtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,330 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Flour + parsleytop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together16,675 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Anchovy + parsleytop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,702 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, anchovy, egg, flour, bread):

  1. Capersfits about as well
  2. Parsleythe original
  3. Nutmegfits about as well
  4. Turmericfits less well

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

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