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Fried Whiting

A fried fish dish where the whiting is cleaned, coated in flour, egg, and breadcrumbs, then fried until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Fried Whiting

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fish

  1. Clean the fish in salt and water.

  2. Dry thoroughly with a clean cloth.

  3. Fasten the tail in the mouth.

  4. Coat the fish with flour.

  5. Brush the fish with egg.

  6. Cover the fish with bread crumbs.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry the fish in hot fat at 400°F (200°C) until golden.

  2. Serve the fish on a napkin.

  3. Garnish with fried parsley and lemon halves.

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. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  3. Parsley + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,588 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Whiting + parsleytop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together330 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Lemon + eggtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together44,316 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

Lemon and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 44,316 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Egg
Binds the bread crumbs to the fish so the coating adheres during frying.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating that browns in the hot fat.
Whiting
The main fish, whose delicate flesh is cooked through by frying.

The step that matters

Drying the fish thoroughly. Surface moisture turns to steam in hot fat and pushes the coating off, while a dry surface lets the flour, egg and crumbs adhere and brown evenly.

“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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