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Fried Cod and Haddock

Fried cod and haddock served with crispy salt pork and lemon slices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Haddock and sauce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 200 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Fried Cod and Haddock

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash and dry the fish pieces, then season with coarse sea salt and roll in Indian meal.

Fry

  1. Fry four or five slices of salt pork in a skillet until crisp, then remove from the skillet.

  2. In the same skillet, add the fish pieces and fry until browned.

Serve

  1. Serve the fried fish with the crispy pork and slices of lemon, alongside sauce or drawn butter.

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. Haddock + saucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together200 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Pork + saucetop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,666 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Haddock + lemontop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together299 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Haddock + porktop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together163 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Pork + lemontop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,786 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

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

What each ingredient does

Cod or haddock
Forms the main body of the dish, cooking to a flaky, moist interior.
Indian meal (cornmeal)
Coats the fish, forming a crisp, golden browned crust when fried.
Salt pork
Renders fat into the skillet that fries the fish and adds savory flavor.

The step that matters

Frying the fish in the same skillet. The fish should be fried until browned on a hot, well-fatted pan. Too little fat or low heat lets the coating absorb grease and turn soggy rather than crisp.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (haddock, pork, sauce):

  1. Avocadofits about as well
  2. Lemonthe original
  3. Applefits about as well
  4. Coconutfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against haddock, pork, sauce. 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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