Name: Creamed Salt Fish
Ingredients: 1 cup shredded salt fish; cream sauce (see recipe on page 109); potatoes (for border)

Why it works: Cream and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,787 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Creamed Salt Fish

Ingredients

1 cup shredded salt fish
cream sauce (see recipe on page 109)
potatoes (for border)

Directions

Prepare the cream sauce according to the recipe on page 109.
In a serving dish, create a border with mashed or shaped potatoes.
Combine the shredded salt fish with the cream sauce.
Spoon the mixture into the center of the potato border.

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.

Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,787 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Fish + potatotop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together134 recipes

Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).
Cream + potatotop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,481 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Fish + saucetop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,487 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Fish + creamtop 24% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together937 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).