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To Crimp Skate

A skate fillet is salted, soaked, boiled, and served after removing threads.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Shrimp and anchovy work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 440 recipes. Both carry hexanol, which smells green, fruity. The science ↓

To Crimp Skate

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Skin the skate on both sides.

  2. Cut the skate into pieces 1.5 inches wide and as long as the skate.

  3. Roll up each piece and tie it with thread.

  4. Soak the pieces in a mixture of salt, water, and a little vinegar for 3 hours.

Cook and serve

  1. Boil the pieces in salted water for 15 minutes.

  2. Before serving, cut off the threads.

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. Shrimp + anchovytop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together440 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanol (green, fruity).

  2. Shrimp + buttertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,931 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  3. Butter + anchovytop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,697 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Vinegar + anchovytop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,008 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Vinegar + buttertop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,513 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

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

What each ingredient does

Skate
Forms the main body of the dish, cooked whole in rolled pieces for a firm, tender texture.
Coarse sea salt
Seasons the fish during the soak and seasons the boiling water.
Vinegar
Adds a mild acidity to the soaking liquid, which helps firm and season the fish.

The step that matters

Boiling the rolled pieces. Boiling for the full 15 minutes must be timed carefully, because overcooked fish becomes dry and falls apart. The rolled pieces stay intact while the proteins set evenly through the roll.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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