Name: Dinner
Ingredients: 80 grams boiled cod; 10 grams oleo; vinegar to taste; 150 grams string beans; 10 grams oleo; 1 Hepco cake; 15 grams oleo

Why it works: Vinegar and beans are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,347 recipes. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, pear. The science ↓

Dinner

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

Boil the cod until cooked through.
Steam or boil the string beans until tender.

Serve

Serve with oleo and vinegar.
Toss the string beans with oleo before serving.
Serve the Hepco cake on the side.

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.

Vinegar + beanstop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,347 recipes

Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

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

What each ingredient does

Cod: Provides the main protein, which turns flaky and tender once fully cooked.
Oleo: Adds fat and richness, carrying flavour across the fish and beans.
String beans: Supply the vegetable element, softening to a tender texture when steamed or boiled.

“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.