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Boiled Crimped Cod

A boiled cod dish flavored with vinegar, onion, peppercorns, clove, and sea salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: White wine and vinegar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,776 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Boiled Crimped Cod

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Place the crimped cod in a fish kettle and cover with warm water.

  2. Add the white wine vinegar, sliced onion, peppercorns, clove, and coarse sea salt.

  3. Bring to a boil, then simmer for about 5 minutes or until the fish is cooked through.

  4. Drain the fish and serve on a serviette with your choice of sauce.

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. White wine + vinegartop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,776 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. White wine + oniontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,535 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Onion + clovetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together16,901 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  4. Vinegar + oniontop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,226 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  5. White wine + clovetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,715 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

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

What each ingredient does

Crimped cod
Is the main protein, cooked gently in the poaching liquid until it turns opaque and flakes.
White wine vinegar
Adds a sharp acidity that brightens the mild flavour of the fish.

The step that matters

Simmer only until the fish is cooked through. Once the boil is reached, prolonged simmering toughens the proteins and makes the flesh dry and stringy. Checking for flakes that separate easily prevents overcooking.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (white wine, vinegar, onion):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Tarragonfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against white wine, vinegar, onion. 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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