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To Boil Cod's Sounds and Tongues

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and nutmeg match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,062 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

To Boil Cod's Sounds and Tongues

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Soak the cod's sounds and tongues in warm milk and water for 3-4 hours.

  2. Scrape and clean them thoroughly.

  3. Place them in a saucepan with fresh milk and water.

  4. Boil gently until tender.

  5. Serve with egg sauce and garnish with fried parsley or shredded horseradish.

  6. For forcemeat, mix chopped oysters, bread crumbs, egg yolks, and season with nutmeg, mace, pepper, and salt.

  7. Fill the half-boiled sounds with the forcemeat, skewer them closed.

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.

  1. Parsley + nutmegtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,062 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Nutmeg + macetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,557 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Oyster + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,545 recipes

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

  5. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the mace

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

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Cinnamonfits better
  3. Marjoramfits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, egg, sauce, parsley, oyster, bread, nutmeg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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