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To Broil Fresh Sturgeon

A broiled sturgeon cutlet seasoned with parsley, breadcrumbs, pepper, and salt, served with oyster, melted butter, or anchovy sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

To Broil Fresh Sturgeon

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Rub the sturgeon cutlets with the beaten egg yolk.

  2. Mix parsley, bread crumbs, pepper, and salt.

  3. Sprinkle the mixture over the cutlets.

  4. Place the cutlets in buttered white paper.

Cook and serve

  1. Broil the cutlets gently until cooked through.

  2. Serve with oyster sauce, melted butter, or anchovy sauce.

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

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

  2. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Sturgeon + oystertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27 recipes

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

  4. Sturgeon + saucetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together93 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Butter + oystertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,184 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Sturgeon cutlets
Forms the main body of the dish and is cooked through by broiling.
Egg yolk
Binds the crumb coating so it adheres to the fish and browns.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden crust during broiling and absorb moisture.
Parsley
Adds fresh, herbal aroma and flavour to the crust.

The step that matters

Broil the cutlets gently until cooked through. Fish is delicate and dries out or toughens under high heat. Gentle broiling cooks the flesh through evenly while the crumb crust browns without overcooking the interior.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sturgeon, egg, bread, pepper, butter, oyster, sauce):

  1. Parsleythe original
  2. Capersfits about as well
  3. Nutmegfits about as well
  4. Thymefits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against sturgeon, egg, bread, pepper, butter, oyster, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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