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Sauce Fob Boiled Fish

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,057 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Sauce Fob Boiled Fish

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pick and wash the fennel, parsley, mint, thyme, and small green onions.

  2. Boil the herbs in a little veal stock until tender.

  3. Chop the boiled herbs and mix with fresh butter and the cooking liquid.

  4. Add grated nutmeg, lemon juice, cayenne pepper, and salt.

  5. Bring to a boil and thicken with flour.

  6. Serve in a sauce boat.

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. Parsley + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Fennel + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together337 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Fennel + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together625 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  4. Fennel + nutmegtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together96 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  5. Parsley + nutmegtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,062 recipes

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

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

Swap the mint

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (fennel, parsley, thyme, onion, veal, butter, nutmeg):

  1. Marjoramfits better
  2. Tarragonfits better
  3. Sagefits better
  4. Mintthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against fennel, parsley, thyme, onion, veal, butter, nutmeg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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