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Salt Codfish and Cream

Salt codfish simmered in cream or milk with butter until tender.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Salt Codfish and Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Break the fish into slivers.

  2. Place the fish in a porcelain or earthen pot.

Cook

  1. Add cream or milk with a little butter.

  2. Cover the pot and cook over moderate heat for one hour or more, until tender.

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. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

What each ingredient does

Salt codfish
Provides the main flesh and savory, salty flavor of the dish.
Cream (or milk)
Adds moisture and richness, gently softening the fish as it simmers.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a smoother, rounder mouthfeel.

The step that matters

Cook covered over moderate heat until tender. Gentle, covered heat softens the dried fish slowly and keeps the cream from scorching or reducing too quickly. Cooking too fast or uncovered can toughen the fish and split the cream.

“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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