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Haddocks a LA Royale

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Haddock and whiting match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 103 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Haddocks a LA Royale

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Stuff the haddocks with quenelle force-meat of whiting.

  2. Place them head to tail on a baking sheet.

  3. Season with pepper and coarse sea salt, then bake them.

  4. After cooling, cover with a thin layer of quenelle force-meat.

  5. Arrange fillets of soles on top in a slanting direction.

  6. Mask the heads with force-meat mixed with pounded lobster-coral.

  7. Form eyes and mouth with truffles.

  8. Cover with thin layers of bacon and a buttered paper.

  9. Bake in the oven for 45 minutes before serving.

  10. Remove the paper and bacon, absorb excess grease with a clean napkin.

  11. Transfer to a serving dish, sauce with Parisian sauce, and garnish with quenelles of lobster and truffles.

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. Haddock + whitingtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together103 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Whiting + saucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together236 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Haddock + saucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together200 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Whiting + lobstertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together73 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Lobster + saucetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,095 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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