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Fillets of Turbot

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 16 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 ↓

Fillets of Turbot

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the leftover turbot into nice-shaped pieces and place them in a dish or sauté pan.

  2. Add the white stock to the pan.

  3. Blanch and remove gills from the oysters, then add them to the prepared sauce and boil for a few minutes.

  4. Pour the oyster sauce over the fish.

  5. In a fish kettle, combine water and wine.

  6. Add sweet herbs, onion, garlic, peppercorns, carrots, turnips, butter, salt, and cayenne pepper to the kettle.

  7. Simmer for 30 minutes, then strain the mixture and let it cool.

  8. Boil the turbot for 20 minutes and garnish with lobster sauce.

  9. Serve with sliced and dressed cucumber.

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. Carrot + turniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,002 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Clove + carrottop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,873 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  4. Onion + turniptop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,585 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Clove + turniptop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turbot, oyster, wine, onion, garlic, carrot, turnip):

  1. Parsleyfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Capersfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against turbot, oyster, wine, onion, garlic, carrot, turnip. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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