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Haddocks a LA Royale

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Haddock and whiting match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 103 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Haddocks a LA Royale

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Dove and stuff the haddocks with the quenelle force-meat of whiting.

  2. Place them head to tail on a baking sheet and season with pepper and coarse sea salt.

  3. Bake the haddocks until cooked through, then allow them to cool.

  4. Cover the haddocks with a thin layer of force-meat, and arrange fillets of soles on top at a slant.

  5. Mask the heads with more force-meat mixed with pounded lobster-coral, and form eyes and mouth with truffles.

  6. Cover the haddocks with thin layers of bacon and place a buttered paper over them.

  7. About 45 minutes before serving, put the haddocks in the oven to finish baking.

  8. Just before serving, remove the paper and bacon, absorb excess grease with a clean napkin.

  9. Carefully transfer the haddocks to a serving dish, sauce them with Parisian sauce, and garnish with quenelles of lobster and truffles.

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. Haddock + whitingtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together103 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Whiting + lobstertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together73 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Haddock + lobstertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together31 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Meat + truffletop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together527 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Meat + lobstertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together909 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

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