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10 Crimp Cod

Cod fillets coated with oyster forcemeat and breadcrumbs, baked until cooked.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

10 Crimp Cod

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 300°F (150°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Soak cod sounds in warm water for 30 minutes, then scrape and clean them.

  2. Boil cod sounds in a mixture of milk and water until tender, but not too soft.

  3. Let them cool, then spread a thin layer of forcemeat over each sound and roll them up, securing with skewers.

Bake and serve

  1. Dust with flour and roast in a 300°F (150°C) oven until cooked through.

  2. Serve with oyster 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.

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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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Nutmeg + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together13,015 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Nutmeg + flourtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,623 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Cod sounds
Form the main body of the dish, becoming tender when gently boiled and then roasted.
Forcemeat of chopped oysters
Adds a savoury, briny filling that is spread over each sound before rolling.
Milk
Provides gentle moisture and mild richness during the simmering of the cod sounds.
Flour
Dusted over the rolls so the surface dries and browns in the oven.

The step that matters

Boil until tender, but not too soft. Overcooking fish proteins makes them break down and turn mushy, while undercooking leaves them tough. Stopping at tender keeps the sounds firm enough to roll and hold their shape through roasting.

Swap the nutmeg

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, oyster, bread, butter, pepper, egg, flour):

  1. Nutmegthe original
  2. Parsleyfits about as well
  3. Cinnamonfits less well
  4. Capersfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, oyster, bread, butter, pepper, egg, flour. 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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