Name: Fillets of Sturgeon with Tarragon Sauce
Ingredients: thin slices of roasted sturgeon; good tarragon sauce

Why it works: Sturgeon and sauce work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 93 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Fillets of Sturgeon with Tarragon Sauce

Ingredients

thin slices of roasted sturgeon
good tarragon sauce

Directions

Cut thin slices from a piece of roasted sturgeon.
Arrange the slices in a circle on a serving dish.
Heat the dish until very hot.
Pour good tarragon sauce over the sturgeon slices.

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.

Sturgeon + saucetop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together93 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Tarragon + saucetop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together566 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Sturgeon + tarragontop 44% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together3 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).