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Sturgeon a LA Russe

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 20 ingredients
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Why it works: Lobster and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,095 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Sturgeon a LA Russe

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Braise the sturgeon in wine mirepoix or in vinegar and water.

  2. Once cooked, remove the skin and trim the sturgeon.

  3. Mask the sturgeon with stiff glaze mixed with pounded lobster-coral.

  4. Garnish with small fillets of gurnets and green gherkins, sautéed in butter.

  5. Place turned olives at each end and pour rich Genoise sauce around it.

  6. Finish with lobster butter, cayenne, lemon juice, parsley, capers, crayfish tails, and anchovy quenelles.

  7. Garnish the inner edge of the dish with fried smelts.

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. Lobster + saucetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,095 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Olive + lemontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,922 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Vinegar + olivetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,297 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  4. Wine + vinegartop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,493 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  5. Sturgeon + saucetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together93 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sturgeon, wine, vinegar, lobster, butter, olive, sauce):

  1. Lemonthe original
  2. Grapefits about as well
  3. Plumfits about as well
  4. Applefits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against sturgeon, wine, vinegar, lobster, butter, olive, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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