Why it works: Egg and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and 118,967 recipes mention both. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓
Remove Fresh Codfish, Egg Sauce
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the fresh codfish by cleaning and filleting it.
In a pan, melt butter over medium heat.
Cook the codfish in the melted butter until it is flaky and cooked through.
In a separate bowl, beat the eggs and season with salt and pepper.
Pour the egg mixture over the cooked codfish and cook until the eggs are set.
Serve hot.
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.
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Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together118,967 recipes
Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
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Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together85,593 recipes
Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
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Egg + peppertop 33% of all pairsAroma overlaplowMentioned together50,580 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Egg and pepper share little aroma chemistry, yet 50,580 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.
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