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Cod Omelet

A fried omelet made with cod, eggs, nutmeg, and mace.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Nutmeg and mace are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,557 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

Cod Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Break the thickest parts of the dressed cod into small pieces.

  2. Season the cod with a pinch of grated nutmeg and a pinch of pounded mace.

Cook and serve

  1. Beat the eggs well and mix them with the seasoned cod to form a paste.

  2. Fry the mixture in a pan as you would an omelet.

  3. Serve hot.

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. Nutmeg + macetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,557 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  2. Nutmeg + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together24,744 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  3. Mace + eggtop 35% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together7,587 recipes

Nutmeg and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 24,744 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the cod into a paste and set into a firm, sliceable omelet when fried.
Thick parts of dressed cod
Provides the main filling, with flaked texture and mild savory flavor.

The step that matters

Frying the cod and egg mixture. The mixture is a loose paste of egg and fish. Cooking it over moderate heat lets the egg set evenly through the middle before the outside browns or scorches.

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (nutmeg, egg):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Allspicefits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against nutmeg, egg. 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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