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Genoese Sauce for Stewed Fish

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 16 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 ↓

Genoese Sauce for Stewed Fish

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a stewpan, fry the sliced carrots, onion, parsley roots, mushrooms, bay leaves, thyme, mace, and cloves in butter until the onions are soft.

  2. Add the wine, brown sauce, and consommé to the pan, enough to stew the fish.

  3. Once the fish is cooked, carefully remove it without breaking.

  4. Strain the gravy into a fresh stewpan.

  5. Stir in the anchovy paste and the butter rolled in flour to thicken the sauce.

  6. Squeeze in lime juice and cook over low heat until smooth and thick.

  7. Remove the skin from the fish if large, place it on a dish, and cover it with the sauce.

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. Carrot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,053 recipes

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

  3. Thyme + clovetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,108 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  4. Carrot + thymetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  5. Carrot + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,873 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, onion, parsley, mushroom, peach, thyme, clove):

  1. Marjoramfits better
  2. Allspicefits better
  3. Basilfits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, onion, parsley, mushroom, peach, thyme, clove. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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