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Fish Chowder

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Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Fish Chowder

Ingredients

Directions

  1. "Boston Cooking School."

  2. Take a 4 pound fresh cod or haddock, skin, cut ofif head and tail, take out the backbone, throw away the skin, and put the head, etc., into a pan with 2 cups cold water; stew slowly 20 minutes; in the meantime cut the meat into 2 inch pieces, and put aside. Chop a small piece salt pork, fry out, brown an onion in the fat, and strain the fat into a kettle with 4 cups diced and parboiled potatoes ; add 2 clips boiling water and cook 5 minutes ; then the liquor from the fish pan and the diced fish; cover and simmer 10 minutes longer ; season with 1 tablespoon salt, ^ teaspoon pepper, 3 tablespoons butter, 4 cups scalded milk, and 8 Boston crackers split and soaked in the milk; tea crackers would need no soft- ening,

  3. SOUPS. 45

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

794Calories
39 gProtein
22 gFat
108 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cod100g cooked82
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0

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

By Martin, Maria Ewing, Mrs., [from old catalog] comp. 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.

  1. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  2. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Milk + peppertop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together26,984 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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