Why it works: Arrowroot and pepper work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and 329 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓
The recipe
Ingredients
Contains: wheat, fish (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)
Directions
Prepare the cod sounds as directed.
Stew them in white gravy.
Thicken the gravy with a little arrowroot or flour, then gently beat it up.
Season with salt and pepper, if allowed.
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.
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Arrowroot + peppertop 11% of all pairsAroma overlaplowMentioned together329 recipes
Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
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