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Cod’s Head

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and mushroom match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 3,231 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

Contains: milk, fish (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

  1. Prepare the cod's head by cleaning and removing any gills.

  2. Steam or boil the broccoli and carrots until tender.

  3. Cook the haunch bone of beef until well done.

  4. Stuff the small turkey and roast it until golden brown.

  5. Prepare snow balls and raspberry cream for dessert.

  6. Sauté the mushrooms until soft.

  7. Make jellies and stewed cardoons as side dishes.

  8. Bake apricot tartlets and blanc mange for dessert.

  9. Roast partridges or woodcocks as desired.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Beef + mushroomtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,231 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  2. Beef + turkeytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together248 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  3. Broccoli + carrottop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,440 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  4. Turkey + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together205 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  5. Carrot + beeftop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together6,604 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the raspberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (broccoli, carrot, beef, turkey, cream, mushroom, cardoon):

  1. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  2. Orangebetter flavor fit
  3. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  4. Raspberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against broccoli, carrot, beef, turkey, cream, mushroom, cardoon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

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