Name: Fish Loaf with Cucumber Sauce
Ingredients: fish; cucumber; sauce ingredients

Why it works: Fish and cucumber work together. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Fish Loaf with Cucumber Sauce

Ingredients

fish
cucumber
sauce ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fish by cleaning and filleting it.
Mix the fish with the other ingredients to form a loaf.
Bake the loaf until cooked through.
Prepare the cucumber sauce by combining cucumbers with sauce ingredients.
Serve the fish loaf with the cucumber 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.

Explore the science

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.

Fish + cucumbertop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together81 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Fish + saucetop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,487 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Cucumber + saucetop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,174 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).