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Baked Haddocks

A baked haddock dish topped with mashed potatoes, butter, egg, and ketchup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Haddock and ketchup share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 23 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Baked Haddocks

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Place the cleaned haddocks on a flat dish.

  2. Surround the fish with a border of mashed potatoes.

  3. Add a bit of butter and a little salt inside each fish.

Glaze and bake

  1. Glaze the fish with beaten egg.

  2. Dot the tops of the fish with bits of butter.

  3. Garnish with potato balls.

  4. Bake at 350°F (175°C) for 30 minutes.

Finish and serve

  1. Pour melted butter and ketchup over the fish before serving.

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 + ketchuptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together23 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Potato + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,456 recipes

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

  3. Haddock + potatotop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together171 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Haddock + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together764 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Haddock
Forms the main body of the dish, cooking through gently in the oven.
Mashed potatoes
Form a soft border that holds the fish and adds starchy body to the dish.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture, keeping the fish from drying as it bakes.
Egg
Beaten egg glaze sets on the surface and promotes light browning.
Ketchup
Adds sweetness and acidity to the sauce poured over the fish.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (haddock, butter, egg, ketchup):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against haddock, butter, egg, ketchup. 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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