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Bouillabaisse K LA Marseillaise

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 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 ↓

Bouillabaisse K LA Marseillaise

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Clean and cut the fish into pieces.

  2. In a wide saucepan, heat the olive oil over medium heat.

  3. Add the minced onions, garlic, and bay leaf; fry for a moment.

  4. Place the fish in the saucepan and season with salt.

  5. Add lemon slices, tomato, saffron, white wine, and enough water to cover the fish.

  6. Bring to a boil over high heat and cook for 15 minutes.

  7. Add the parsley and boil for 1 more minute.

  8. Remove from heat and pour the stock over slices of bread in a hollow dish, ensuring they are saturated.

  9. Arrange the best pieces of fish on top of the bread.

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. Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,539 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Lemon + saffrontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together538 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Garlic + tomatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,076 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (whiting, lobster, olive, onion, garlic, tomato, saffron):

  1. Limefits about as well
  2. Lemonthe original
  3. Avocadofits less well
  4. Grapefits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against whiting, lobster, olive, onion, garlic, tomato, saffron. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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