Name: Baked Soles
Ingredients: Soles; Potatoes; Salmon Cutlets; Salad; Strawberries; Butter; Coarse sea salt

Why it works: Potato and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,456 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Baked Soles

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).
Prepare the potatoes by quartering them if they are large, then place them in boiling water.
Clean the soles by removing the gills and place them in the oven.
Fry the salmon cutlets in a pan until cooked through.
While the cutlets are frying, prepare the salad and strawberries.
Mash the boiled potatoes and season with coarse sea salt.
Serve the baked soles with the salmon cutlets, salad, and strawberries.

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.

Potato + buttertop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together6,456 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
Salmon + buttertop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,481 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).
Potato + salmontop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together952 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).