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Cod Sounds Broiled

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 122,858 recipes mention both. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat, fish (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

  1. Scald and clean the cod sounds, then rub them with coarse sea salt.

  2. Wash the sounds and place them in a pan of water over heat until tender.

  3. Melt butter in a pan, then stir in flour, salt, mustard, and a little brown gravy.

  4. Pour the sauce over the cooked sounds before serving.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Butter + flourtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together122,858 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Flour + mustardtop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,913 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Butter + mustardtop 14% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together7,977 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Butter and flour share little aroma chemistry, yet 122,858 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, flour):

  1. Arrowrootbetter flavor fit
  2. Potatobetter flavor fit
  3. Shallotbetter flavor fit
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, flour. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

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