Name: Haddock, to Broil
Ingredients: Haddock; Flour; Lobster sauce

Why it works: Haddock and sauce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 200 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Haddock, to Broil

Ingredients

Haddock
Flour
Lobster sauce

Directions

Flour the haddock.
Broil it until golden brown over a high heat.
Place the gridiron as high as possible for better cooking.
Serve with lobster 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.

Haddock + saucetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together200 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Lobster + saucetop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,095 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Haddock + lobstertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together31 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Haddock + flourtop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together401 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Flour + saucetop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together8,078 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).