Why it works: Fish and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and 4,488 recipes mention both. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓
Small Fish in Paper Cornets, in Fine Herbs
Ingredients
Directions
Take as many small fish as will make a dish.
Cook them half in fine herbs, like cutlets a la Maintenon.
Let them cool and make proper cornets as grocers do.
Place the fish tail foremost in the cornets with a portion of herbs.
Twist them up and broil until they are a fine color.
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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Fish + buttertop 12% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together4,488 recipes
Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
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