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Cod’s Roe, Fried

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Shallot and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,737 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Cod’s Roe, Fried

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Heat the butter in a sauté or frying pan.

  2. Cut the cod's roe into 8 slices and fry them lightly on both sides.

  3. Sprinkle the croutes with shallot, parsley, and pepper.

  4. Lay a slice of roe on each crout, add a few grains of cayenne, and serve hot.

  5. For a decorative touch, garnish with strips of gherkin and hard-boiled egg or anchovy butter.

  6. For fresh roe, wash it, cover with boiling water, season with vinegar and salt, boil gently for 10 minutes, cool, slice, and cook as directed.

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. Shallot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,737 recipes

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

  2. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  3. Roe + anchovytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together65 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Shallot + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,898 recipes

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

  5. Shallot + vinegartop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,374 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the shallot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, roe, parsley, pepper, egg, anchovy, vinegar):

  1. Shallotthe original
  2. Chivefits about as well
  3. Capsicumfits about as well
  4. Potatofits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, roe, parsley, pepper, egg, anchovy, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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