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Marrow Toast

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and anchovy are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,232 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Marrow Toast

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the toast and keep it warm.

  2. Spread hot marrow on the toast.

  3. Sprinkle with pepper and coarse sea salt.

  4. Optionally, add a few drops of essence of anchovy.

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. Pepper + anchovytop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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