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Fish Turtle

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Fish and sturgeon work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 26 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Fish Turtle

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare a stock using skate, other fish, or vegetables.

  2. Season the stock as you would for real turtle.

  3. If available, prepare sturgeon as white meat and add to the stock.

  4. Cook the cod heads in the sauce and cut them up as directed.

  5. Use the skate head and chitterlings to complete the dish.

  6. Add calves feet or part of the head if desired.

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. Fish + sturgeontop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together26 recipes

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

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

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