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Oyster Soup, Made of the Fish Stock

A soup made with oysters, fish stock, and parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Oyster and fish work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 496 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Oyster Soup, Made of the Fish Stock

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove the gills from the oysters and set aside.

Cook

  1. In a pot, bring the fish stock to a simmer.

  2. Add the oysters and cook gently for 20 to 30 minutes, skimming off any grease that rises to the surface.

  3. Stir in chopped parsley before serving.

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. Oyster + fishtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together496 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Parsley + fishtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,341 recipes

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

  3. Oyster + parsleytop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,211 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Oysters
Provide the main flavour and tender texture of the soup.
Fish stock
Forms the liquid base that carries the flavour of the soup.

The step that matters

Skimming off the grease. Fat that rises during gentle cooking can make the soup taste greasy and heavy, so skimming keeps the broth clean and light.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (oyster, fish):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Parsleythe original
  3. Celeryfits about as well
  4. Pepperfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against oyster, fish. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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