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Cheap Fish Soups

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Fish and anchovy work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 637 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Cheap Fish Soups

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove the skin from the conger eel and slice it into thick cutlets.

  2. Stew the fish with vegetables and herbs until cooked.

  3. Strain the soup and let it settle, then reheat.

  4. Add rice and minced parsley, or thicken with rice flour, or serve clear.

  5. For added flavor, include flakes of cold salmon, cod fish, or other seafood.

  6. Simmer large oysters gently in the soup for flavor, and serve the softer parts.

  7. Optionally, add anchovy sauce for extra taste.

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. Fish + anchovytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together637 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Scallop + shrimptop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together26 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  3. Shrimp + anchovytop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together440 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanol (green, fruity).

  4. Rice + parsleytop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,762 recipes

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

  5. Salmon + anchovytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together535 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (fish, rice, flour, salmon, scallop, shrimp, anchovy):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Turmericfits about as well
  3. Parsleythe original
  4. Garlicfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against fish, rice, flour, salmon, scallop, shrimp, anchovy. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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