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Fillets of Soles in Aspic

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and capers match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,550 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Fillets of Soles in Aspic

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the fillets of soles as for cutlets and sauté them until white and free from grease.

  2. Arrange the fillets around the inside of a mold or on a serving dish.

  3. Place a small salad or lettuce in the center, chopped aspic around, and thin cucumber slices as a border.

  4. Cut skate into pieces and fry in oil with parsley, sliced onion, and sweet herbs until cooked.

  5. Pour off the fat, then add vinegar and water to the pan, stirring with the herbs.

  6. Dredge with flour until a good consistency is reached, then add capers before serving.

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 + caperstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,550 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Flour + caperstop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,024 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Onion + caperstop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,381 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Parsley + oniontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Parsley + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together16,675 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (parsley, vinegar, flour, capers):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Kalefits better
  3. Arrowrootfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against parsley, vinegar, flour, capers. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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