Why it works: Bread and wine work together. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 956 recipes. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity. The science ↓
Stuffing for Fish
Ingredients
Directions
Butter both sides of the stale bread slices.
Saturate the bread with wine or catsup, depending on your preference.
Once moist, cut the bread into smaller slices.
Lay the smaller slices inside the fish as stuffing.
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 + winetop 21% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together956 recipes
Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).
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