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Cod Scalloped

A baked dish of ground cod mixed with shrimp, egg yolk, butter, and breadcrumbs, browned in a Dutch oven.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread 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 ↓

Cod Scalloped

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Pound the cold dressed cod until fine.

  2. Beat the egg yolk and pour it over the cod.

  3. Add the skinned shrimp, salt, pepper, and a little butter.

  4. Fill the shells with the mixture, leaving some space at the top.

Top and brown

  1. Sprinkle fine bread crumbs over the filled shells.

  2. Drizzle melted butter on top of the bread crumbs.

  3. Brown the shells in a Dutch oven before the fire.

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

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

  2. Shrimp + buttertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,931 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  3. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  4. Pepper + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

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

  5. Egg + buttertop 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

Cod
Forms the main body of the filling, giving it a flaky, tender texture when cooked.
Egg yolk
Binds the pounded fish together and helps it set into a cohesive filling.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture, and helps the crumb topping brown.
Fine bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden topping that browns in the heat.

The step that matters

Brown the shells in a Dutch oven before the fire. Browning relies on steady, direct heat on the crumb topping. Too little heat leaves it pale and dry, while too much can scorch the crumbs before the filling is heated through.

“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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