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Fish-Pudding

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 18 ingredients
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Why it works: Anchovy and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,057 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Fish-Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix mashed potatoes with butter, cream or milk, egg yolk, and anchovy sauce.

  2. Shape the mixture into a simple mold and bake until pale brown.

  3. Stir chopped hard-boiled egg into the fish and potatoes if desired.

  4. Prepare a savory custard with anchovy sauce and pour it over pieces of cooked fish in a pudding mold.

  5. Steam the mold as you would a pudding until set.

  6. Turn out and serve with a nice fish sauce.

  7. For individual servings, use small molds and follow the same steaming method.

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. Anchovy + saucetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  3. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  4. Anchovy + fishtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together637 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, cream, egg, anchovy, sauce, fish, bread):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, cream, egg, anchovy, sauce, fish, bread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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