Name: Stuffing for Fish
Ingredients: 1 cup of powdered cracker crumbs; 1 teaspoonful salt; 1 teaspoonful chopped parsley; 1 teaspoonful onion juice; 4 cup melted butter; 2 teaspoonfuls of pickles

Why it works: Parsley and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 25,843 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Stuffing for Fish

Ingredients

Directions

1 teaspoonful salt. A little pepper. 1 teaspoonful chopped
1 teaspoonful onion juice. i/4 cup melted butter.
chopped, or, one of ca- pers and one of pickles.
If not moist enough, use a little hot water. An egg may be used, but it is not necessary. This should be a dry stuffing.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

213Calories

3 gProtein

13 gFat

21 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 5 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Cracker	5 saltine crackers (15g)	66
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Parsley	1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Norton, Caroline Trask. 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. See the original page.

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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.

Parsley + oniontop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together25,843 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Onion + buttertop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together42,912 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Parsley + buttertop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together28,563 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).