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Baked Guinet

Baked Gurnet stuffed with veal forcemeat, wrapped in bacon, baked and served with melted butter or maître d’hotel sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Veal and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 23% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,381 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Baked Guinet

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderately hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderately hot oven”. The 350°F in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare

  1. Clean the gurnets, removing fins and gills.

  2. Fill the insides with veal forcemeat and sew them up securely.

  3. Truss the fish with the tail in the mouth.

  4. Lay a slice of fat bacon on each gurnet and place them in a greased baking dish.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake in a moderately hot oven (350°F / 175°C) for about 30 minutes or until done.

  2. Serve on a hot dish without a napkin and pour sauce around the gurnets.

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. Veal + buttertop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,381 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

What each ingredient does

Gurnets
Form the main body of the dish, cooking through in the oven to become flaky and tender.
Veal forcemeat
Fills the cavity, staying moist and firm as the fish cooks around it.
Fat bacon
Lies over the fish and melts slowly, basting it with fat and adding savory flavor.

The step that matters

Bake until done without overcooking. Fish proteins toughen and dry out quickly once they pass their doneness point, so checking early in the stated 30 minutes helps keep the flesh moist.

“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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