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Codfish Balls

A dish of mashed potatoes mixed with shredded salt codfish and butter, formed into balls.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,456 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Codfish Balls

Ingredients

Directions

Cook

  1. Place the codfish and potatoes in a pot of cold water.

  2. Cook until the potatoes are tender.

Mash and mix

  1. Drain the potatoes thoroughly and mash them finely.

  2. Beat the mashed potatoes well and mix in the butter.

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. Potato + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,456 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Salt codfish
Supplies the salty, savory flavor that defines the dish.
Potatoes
Their starch becomes fluffy when mashed and holds the mixture together.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a smoother, softer texture.

The step that matters

Drain the potatoes thoroughly. Excess water makes the mash wet and loose, so the mixture turns soft and sticky and is harder to shape and hold together when cooked.

“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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