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Little Timbals of Fish a LA Sultan

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Haddock and sauce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 200 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Little Timbals of Fish a LA Sultan

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Thinly line some timbale molds with aspic jelly.

  2. Fill the molds with the prepared puree and let it set.

  3. Dip the molds in hot water to release the timbals.

  4. Arrange the timbals on a serving dish surrounded by a salad of lettuce or endive.

  5. Top the timbals with crab bodies or a ragout of cooked fish mixed with salad oil, tarragon vinegar, chopped tarragon, chervil, shallot, and mignonette pepper.

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

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Mustard + tarragontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together901 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

  3. Haddock + creamtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together181 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Tarragon + vinegartop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,547 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Mustard + vinegartop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the tarragon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (shrimp, haddock, sauce, mustard, vinegar, cream):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Garlicfits about as well
  3. Tarragonthe original
  4. Dillfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against shrimp, haddock, sauce, mustard, vinegar, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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