Name: Fried Cod and Haddock
Ingredients: cod; haddock; Indian meal; salt pork; lard; drawn butter

Why it works: Pork and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 13,933 recipes. Both carry 2-furfurylthiol, which smells coffee, roasted. The science ↓

Fried Cod and Haddock

Ingredients

Directions

Cut the fish into pieces suitable for serving.
Wash and dry the fish pieces.
Roll the fish in Indian meal.
Fry some pieces of salt pork in a frying pan.
Remove the pork and add lard to the pan.
When the lard is hot, add the fish and fry until light brown.
Serve the fish with the fried pork and drawn butter in a sauce tureen.

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.

Pork + buttertop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together13,933 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).
Haddock + buttertop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together764 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Haddock + porktop 24% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together163 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).