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Whiting Fried

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 22,662 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Whiting Fried

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Clean and skin the whiting, then wipe it dry.

  2. Fasten the tail in the mouth with a small wooden skewer.

  3. Brush the fish with the egg and cover it with bread crumbs.

  4. Heat the lard in a frying pan.

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. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  2. Whiting + breadtop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together190 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Whiting + eggtop 37% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together340 recipes

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