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Fish Soup

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Winter savory and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 780 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Fish Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Melt 2 ounces of butter in a stew-pan.

  2. Add the onions and stir until lightly browned.

  3. Add the eels and shake over the fire for 5 minutes.

  4. Pour in 3 quarts of boiling water and remove any scum.

  5. Add winter savory, lemon thyme, parsley, allspice, and black pepper.

  6. Cover and let it boil gently for 2 hours.

  7. Strain the soup and skim off any fat.

  8. In a clean stew-pan, melt 3 ounces of butter and stir in enough flour to make a stiff paste.

  9. Gradually add the strained soup and let it simmer for 10 minutes.

  10. Pass the soup through a sieve and return it to a clean stew-pan.

  11. Add fried fish pieces about 10 minutes before serving.

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. Winter savory + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together780 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Thyme + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  3. Thyme + allspicetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,077 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Winter savory + allspicetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together287 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

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