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Cod Bounds Roaiitsd or Baked

Cod sounds, which are fish swim bladders, boiled, rolled around an oyster and bread crumb forcemeat, and baked.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 27,145 recipes mention both. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat, fish, shellfish (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash and clean the cod sounds.

  2. Boil the cod sounds in a mixture of milk and water until nearly done.

Make the stuffing

  1. Once cooled, make a forcemeat by mixing bread crumbs, butter, salt, nutmeg, white pepper and chopped oysters.

  2. Beat the egg yolks to bind the mixture.

  3. Spread the mixture over the cod sounds.

  4. Roll up the sounds and secure them with small skewers.

Bake and serve

  1. Baste with melted butter.

  2. Coat with seasoned bread crumbs.

  3. Place on a tin in a Dutch oven.

  4. Turn and baste with melted butter until browned.

  5. Serve with oyster 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.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Bread + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,145 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Milk + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together81,222 recipes

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

  3. Milk + breadtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together11,363 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Nutmeg + white peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,375 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Bread + oystertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,544 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Cod sounds
Form the main body that is rolled around the stuffing and cooked through.
Bread crumbs
Absorb butter and egg to form a stuffing that holds its shape, and crisp when coated.
Eggs
Bind the forcemeat so it holds together when spread and rolled.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture, and helps the coating brown when basted.
Oysters
Add a briny, savoury flavour to the forcemeat.

The step that matters

Rolling and skewering the sounds. If the stuffing is spread too thickly or the sounds are rolled loosely, the filling can squeeze out or fall apart during cooking. Secure rolls tightly so the stuffing stays inside as the sounds firm up and brown.

Flavor stand-ins for the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, bread, butter, nutmeg, oyster, egg):

  1. Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
  2. Macebetter flavor fit
  3. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, bread, butter, nutmeg, oyster, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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