Name: Smoked Haddock
Ingredients: smoked haddock; olive oil

Why it works: Haddock and olive work together. They rank in the top 24% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 173 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Smoked Haddock

Ingredients

smoked haddock
olive oil

Directions

Moisten the smoked haddock with olive oil.
Place it on a grill.
Warm it through.

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.

Haddock + olivetop 24% of all pairs

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Cooked together173 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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What each ingredient does

Smoked haddock: Is the main ingredient and the flavour of the dish, cooked gently until warmed through.
Olive oil: Adds moisture and fat, helping the fish stay tender and promoting light surface browning on the grill.

“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.