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Cod Au Gratin

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Sauce and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and 4,933 recipes mention both. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

Contains: wheat, fish, shellfish (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Also mentioned in the method: cod, scallop

Directions

  1. Pull codfish into flakes after boiling.

  2. In a saucepan, combine cod flakes with 1 pint of Downton Sauce or Bechamel Sauce flavored with lemon.

  3. Warm the mixture thoroughly without breaking the flakes.

  4. Fill six scallop shells with the mixture.

  5. Sprinkle with fried bread-crumbs and a little coarse sea salt.

  6. Serve immediately.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Sauce + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together4,933 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Lemon + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together8,433 recipes

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

  3. Sauce + lemontop 20% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together6,598 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

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

  1. Figbetter flavor fit
  2. Applebetter flavor fit
  3. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sauce, bread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

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