Why it works: Haddock and ketchup share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 23 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓
Brown Fish Soup
Ingredients
Directions
Fry the fish until golden.
Stew the fish until the stock is strong.
Strain the stock and season with coarse sea salt and ketchup.
Add a slice of toast to the soup.
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 pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.
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Haddock + ketchuptop 1% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together23 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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