Name: Broiled Shad Roes
Ingredients: shad roes; coarse sea salt; water; lemon juice; salad oil; lemon sauce

Why it works: Roe and sauce work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 142 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Broiled Shad Roes

Ingredients

Directions

Parboil the shad roes in salted water for 10 minutes.
Transfer them to ice water until cold and firm.
Marinate the roes in a mixture of lemon juice and salad oil for 1 hour.
Wipe the roes lightly and broil until nicely browned, turning several times.
Serve with lemon 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.

Roe + saucetop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together142 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Roe + lemontop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together251 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Lemon + saucetop 30% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together6,598 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).