Why it works: Lemon and butter match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 41,197 recipes mention both. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓
The recipe
Ingredients
Contains: milk, fish (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)
Also mentioned in the method: fish
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.
Prepare the soles by washing and drying them with a clean cloth, then fold or roll them neatly.
Place the fillets in a buttered tin dish.
Sprinkle a little coarse sea salt and squeeze the lemon over the fillets.
Cover the dish with buttered paper.
Bake in a 400°F (200°C) oven for six minutes.
Have your maitre d’hotel sauce ready.
Remove the fillets from the oven and arrange them on a hot serving dish.
Mix the cooking liquid from the fillets into your sauce.
Pour the sauce over the fish and serve.
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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.
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Lemon + buttertop 8% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together41,197 recipes
Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
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