Name: To Clress the Roe of Carp
Ingredients: Roe of carp; Vinegar; Coarse sea salt; Spices; Bread crumbs; Minced lemon peel; Bacon (for larding)

Why it works: Roe and lemon work together. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 251 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

To Clress the Roe of Carp

Ingredients

Directions

Salt the roe of carp and boil it in vinegar.
Cut the boiled roe into small pieces and season with spices.
Mix the seasoned roe with bread crumbs and minced lemon peel to form cakes.
Place the cakes in scallop shells or a Dutch oven and heat them before the fire or bake them.
For the carp, stew it with the roe, then skin the fish.
Lard the fish with bits of bacon and brown it before the fire or in the oven.
Remove the roe, form it into balls, and fry with forcemeat.
Prepare a sauce of your choice, either white or brown, and serve it under the carp.

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.

Roe + lemontop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together251 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Roe + breadtop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together123 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
Bread + lemontop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together8,445 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Vinegar + lemontop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together7,334 recipes

Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).
Vinegar + breadtop 25% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,672 recipes

Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).