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Whiting Quenelle Meat

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Whiting and pepper work together. They rank in the top 30% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 374 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Whiting Quenelle Meat

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Chop the onions and sage leaves finely.

  2. Mix them with the bread crumbs, pepper, and salt.

  3. Prepare the whiting by following the method for veal and chicken quenelle.

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. Whiting + peppertop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together374 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Egg + peppertop 33% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together50,580 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

Egg and pepper barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 50,580 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

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