Why it works: Roe and sturgeon work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10 recipes. Both carry 2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, green. The science ↓
Caviare Grenu
Ingredients
Directions
Collect the roe in a sieve.
Rinse the roe under a steady current of water, stirring to clean thoroughly.
Soak the cleaned roe in strong brine for about 1 hour.
Drain the roe through a tammy cloth.
Serve fresh.
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 pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.
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Roe + sturgeontop 11% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together10 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).
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