Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓
Baked Slips
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the fish
Scrape the soles but do not skin them.
Let them dry between folds of a cloth.
Coat and bake
Brush the white side with dissolved butter.
Sift bread crumbs over the fish.
Place them white side up in a buttered baking tin.
Bake until the flesh easily leaves the bones.
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.
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Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together27,232 recipes
Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
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What each ingredient does
- Small soles
- Provide the delicate white fish that becomes flaky and tender when baked.
- Dissolved butter
- Adds moisture and fat, helping the crumbs brown and the fish stay juicy.
- Bread crumbs
- Form a light crust on top that browns and helps hold in moisture.
The step that matters
Bake until the flesh easily leaves the bones. Fish cooks quickly and dries out past doneness. Flesh that flakes easily from the bone is cooked through, so checking early and stopping at that point keeps it moist.
“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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