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Baked Fish

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Baked Fish

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the fish for cooking and sprinkle the inside with coarse sea salt.

  2. Fill the fish with fish dressing and sew the edges together.

  3. Skewer the fish into shape and wrap the tail in greased paper.

  4. Place the fish in a greased baking pan or on a fish sheet in a pan.

  5. Lay strips of fat salt pork over the top of the fish and hold in place with toothpicks.

  6. Dredge the fish with flour and place pieces of fat pork around it in the pan.

  7. Bake for about 10 minutes per pound, plus an additional 10 minutes; baste every 10 minutes with the fat in the pan.

  8. Carefully lift out the fish, remove the skewers and paper.

  9. Garnish with parsley and lemon, and serve with Tomato or Hollandaise 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. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Parsley + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,398 recipes

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

  3. Pork + tomatotop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,843 recipes

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

  4. Lemon + tomatotop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,592 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Fish + porktop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together668 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

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

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (fish, pork, flour, parsley, lemon):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Arrowrootfits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against fish, pork, flour, parsley, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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