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Baked Haddock with Egg Sauce

Baked haddock topped with boiled egg sauce, served with bread, spinach, and apple pudding.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Baked Haddock with Egg Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point. The book gives no cooking times either; the times in the steps were added in transcription, so check for doneness rather than trusting the clock.

Prepare and bake

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. Place the haddock in a baking dish and dot with butter.

  3. Bake the haddock until cooked through, about 20-25 minutes.

Make the egg sauce

  1. Boil the eggs, then chop and mix with melted butter.

Serve

  1. Serve the baked haddock with the egg sauce on top.

  2. Accompany with bread, spinach, and apple pudding.

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 + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  3. Bread + appletop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,790 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Butter + appletop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,706 recipes

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

  5. Bread + spinachtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Haddock
Forms the flaky main body of the dish, its proteins setting as it bakes.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture, keeping the fish from drying as it bakes.
Eggs
Chopped and blended with melted butter, they give the sauce body and richness.

The step that matters

Bake the haddock until cooked through, no longer. Fish has little connective tissue and its proteins set quickly, so overbaking squeezes out moisture and leaves the flesh dry and firm.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (haddock, butter, egg, coffee, bread, spinach):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Vanillafits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against haddock, butter, egg, coffee, bread, spinach. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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.

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