Name: Important Remarks on Cod-liver Oil
Ingredients: 1 pound fresh cod-liver; 2 pounds floury potatoes

Why it works: Liver and potato work together. They rank in the top 23% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 108 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Important Remarks on Cod-liver Oil

Ingredients

1 pound fresh cod-liver
2 pounds floury potatoes

Directions

Peel and steam the potatoes until tender.
Cut the cod-liver into four pieces.
Place the cod-liver over the steamed potatoes.
Steam the potatoes and cod-liver together until cooked.

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.

Liver + potatotop 23% of all pairs

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Cooked together108 recipes

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

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What each ingredient does

Cod liver: Provides the rich, oily fat and flavour that defines the dish.
Floury potatoes: Their starch turns soft and fluffy when steamed, giving the dish its body.

“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.