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Cod Fish Balls

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Cod Fish Balls

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 ↓

Cod Fish Balls

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Soak the fish in lukewarm water overnight.

  2. Change the water in the morning and wash off all the salt.

  3. Cut the fish into pieces and boil for 15 minutes.

  4. Drain the water and boil again in boiling water for 20 minutes.

  5. Drain all the water, cool the fish, and remove skin and bones.

  6. Mix the fish with an equal quantity of mashed potatoes, butter, salt, and pepper.

  7. Beat the eggs and add milk if necessary, then work into a dough.

  8. Flour your hands and form the mixture into biscuits.

  9. Fry the biscuits in hot butter or drippings.

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

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

  2. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Potato + milktop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  4. Fish + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,488 recipes

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

  5. Fish + milktop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,432 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

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

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (fish, butter, pepper, egg, milk):

  1. Potatothe original
  2. Capsicumfits about as well
  3. Asparagusfits less well
  4. Chivefits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against fish, butter, pepper, egg, milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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