Name: Small Turbots, or Turbotine, a LA Frangaisc
Ingredients: 1 or 2 small turbots; butter; sweet herbs; coarse sea salt

Why it works: Turbot and butter work together. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 372 recipes. Both carry octanal, which smells fat, soap. The science ↓

Small Turbots, or Turbotine, a LA Frangaisc

Ingredients

1 or 2 small turbots
butter
sweet herbs
coarse sea salt

Directions

Split the turbots down the back.
Place butter in a silver dish.
Cover the butter with sweet herbs and a little coarse sea salt.

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.

Turbot + buttertop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together372 recipes

Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

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Small Turbots, or Turbotine, a LA Frangaisc