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Poisson Cuit Au Court Bouillon

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,053 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Poisson Cuit Au Court Bouillon

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Fry the celery, carrot, onion, and cloves in butter until softened.

  2. Add the fried vegetables, boiling water, vinegar, peppercorns, and salt to a fish kettle and boil for 15 minutes.

  3. Skim the broth and add salt to taste.

  4. Rub the skin of the prepared fish with lemon juice to keep it white.

  5. Place the fish in the boiling broth, ensuring it is fully covered.

  6. Simmer gently for 5 to 10 minutes per pound of fish.

  7. Once cooked, drain the fish and serve on a folded napkin with parsley, lemon, and a 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. Carrot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,053 recipes

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

  2. Celery + carrottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Celery + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,810 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  5. Carrot + oniontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together21,601 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (celery, carrot, onion, vinegar, butter, parsley):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Tarragonfits better
  3. Dillfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against celery, carrot, onion, vinegar, butter, parsley. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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