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Fish Dried Haddock, Stewed

Stewed dried haddock cooked with butter and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Haddock and butter work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 764 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Fish Dried Haddock, Stewed

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the haddock

  1. Warm the haddock by the fire until the skin peels off easily.

  2. Cut the haddock into pieces down the middle and 2 or 3 times across.

Stew

  1. Place the pieces in a closed saucepan with a lump of butter and 1 teaspoon of water.

  2. Stew gently for a few minutes.

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. Haddock + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together764 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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 body of the dish, becoming tender and flaky as it stews.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, helping the fish stay moist and carry flavour.

The step that matters

Stew gently in a closed pan. Gentle heat with a lid traps the small amount of water as steam, so the fish softens without drying or toughening. Vigorous boiling would make the flesh tough and break it apart.

“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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