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Pried Cod and Haddock

A fried fish dish using cod or haddock, coated in egg and breadcrumbs, served with drawn butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter 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 ↓

Pried Cod and Haddock

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash the fish in saltwater and dry it.

  2. Dip each piece of fish in the beaten egg, then coat with bread or cracker crumbs.

Fry and serve

  1. Heat the fat or lard in a pan until hot, about 2 inches deep.

  2. Fry the fish until golden brown.

  3. Serve with drawn 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. Bread + buttertop 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. Haddock + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together764 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Haddock + breadtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together220 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Cod or haddock
The main protein, which cooks through and flakes while the coating browns.
Egg
Binds the crumbs to the fish so the coating stays on during frying.
Bread or cracker crumbs
Forms a crisp, golden-brown coating around the fish.
Fat or lard
Conducts heat to the coating, browning it and crisping the outside.

The step that matters

Fry until golden brown in hot fat. The fat must be hot enough to brown the crumbs quickly. If it is too cool, the coating soaks up grease and turns soggy, and the fish may cook unevenly.

“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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