Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓
Bread Panada for Fish Timbale
Ingredients
Directions
Soak the bread crumbs and express the water.
Place the bread in a saucepan over heat and stir in milk or stock until it forms a paste and leaves the sides of the pan.
In another saucepan, combine the flour and butter until blended.
Add the onion juice, kitchen bouquet, mace, salt, paprika, pepper, and anchovy catsup to the butter mixture.
Stir in the pureed tomatoes and boil for 10 minutes.
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.
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Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together27,232 recipes
Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
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Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together81,283 recipes
Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
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Bread + anchovytop 10% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together1,260 recipes
Shared aroma: hexanol (green, fruity).
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Bread + milktop 11% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together11,466 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
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Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together68,474 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
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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, milk, flour, butter, onion, pepper, anchovy):
- Parsleyfits better
- Capersfits better
- Garlicfits better
- Macethe original
Fit is the average pairing score against bread, milk, flour, butter, onion, pepper, anchovy. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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