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Dried Haddock and Tomatoes

A dish of dried haddock cooked with tomatoes, onions, and parsley in butter, served over rice or potatoes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Dried Haddock and Tomatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Soak the dried haddock for 3 to 4 hours.

  2. Remove the skin and bones from the fish, then break it into flakes.

  3. Slice the onion and tomatoes, and chop the parsley.

Cook

  1. In a pan, cook the onion, tomatoes, and parsley in the butter until soft.

  2. Add the fish and cook for an additional 10 minutes.

  3. Serve on a bed of boiled rice or mashed potatoes.

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. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  2. Tomato + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Tomato + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,633 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Tomato + parsleytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,398 recipes

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

  5. Onion + parsleytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Dried haddock
Forms the main protein, which flakes apart as it cooks through.
Tomatoes
Add moisture and acidity that help soften the onion and build a light sauce.
Onion
Softens in the butter to add sweetness and savoury depth to the base.
Butter
Carries flavour and adds richness while the vegetables soften.

The step that matters

Soaking the dried haddock. Dried fish must be rehydrated fully before cooking, or it stays tough and leathery. Soaking long enough lets the flesh absorb water and become tender and flaky.

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (haddock, onion, butter, pepper, parsley):

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Carrotfits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against haddock, onion, butter, pepper, parsley. 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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