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Codfish Croquettes with Cream Sauce

Codfish croquettes served with a cream sauce, thin sliced cucumbers, and radishes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Cucumber and radish match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 212 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Codfish Croquettes with Cream Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare the codfish by cooking and flaking it.

  2. Mix the flaked codfish with cream to form a thick mixture.

Shape and fry

  1. Shape the mixture into croquettes.

  2. Fry the croquettes until golden brown.

Serve

  1. Serve with thin sliced cucumbers and radishes cut into rose shapes.

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. Cucumber + radishtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together212 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Cream + cucumbertop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together787 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  3. Cream + radishtop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together106 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

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

What each ingredient does

Codfish
Provides the main body and flavor of the croquettes once cooked and flaked.
Cream
Adds moisture and binds the flaked fish into a mixture that holds its shape.

The step that matters

Mixing the codfish with cream. The mixture must be thick enough to hold its shape when formed. If it is too wet it will slump and may break apart in the hot oil.

Swap the radish

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, cucumber):

  1. Lettucefits better
  2. Horseradishfits about as well
  3. Cauliflowerfits about as well
  4. Radishthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, cucumber. 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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