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Creamed Fish Served in Mashed Potato Case

Creamed fish served inside a baked mashed potato case.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and fish work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 134 recipes. Both carry (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, melon. The science ↓

Creamed Fish Served in Mashed Potato Case

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a hot oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Make the casserole

  1. Line a baking dish with mashed potatoes.

  2. Cover the potatoes with the beaten egg yolk.

  3. Bake in a 400°F (200°C) oven until browned.

Serve

  1. Serve the creamed fish in the potato case.

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.

Explore the science

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. Potato + fishtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together134 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  2. Egg + fishtop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,782 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Potato + eggtop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,978 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Mashed potatoes
Form the base and case that holds the creamed fish.
Egg yolk
Beaten over the potatoes, it enriches the surface and helps it brown in the oven.
Creamed fish
Forms the filling served inside the potato case.

The step that matters

Bake until browned. Baking the beaten egg yolk on the potatoes sets it and browns the surface. Too little time leaves the top pale and wet, while too long can dry the potatoes out.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Chivefits about as well
  3. Leekfits about as well
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, fish. 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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