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Portuguese Shrimping for Soles Baked

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Portuguese Shrimping for Soles Baked

Oven, in the book's wordsA slow oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pound the cold meat until fine.

  2. Add the fried bacon, onions, garlic or shallot, parsley, anchovy, pepper, salt, nutmeg, and a few bread crumbs.

  3. Bind the mixture with 2 or 3 egg yolks.

  4. Leave the heads of the fish on one side of the split part and keep them on the outer side of the roll.

  5. When served, turn the heads towards each other in the dish.

  6. Garnish with fried or dried parsley.

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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Parsley + nutmegtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,062 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Garlic + parsleytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,308 recipes

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

  5. Beef + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,092 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

Swap the nutmeg

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, onion, garlic, parsley, anchovy, pepper, bread):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Marjoramfits better
  3. Capersfits better
  4. Nutmegthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, onion, garlic, parsley, anchovy, pepper, bread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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