Name: To Broil Crimp Cod, Whiting, Ob Haddock
Ingredients: cod; whiting; haddock; flour; butter; lobster; horseradish; lemon

Why it works: Whiting and haddock match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 103 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

To Broil Crimp Cod, Whiting, Ob Haddock

Ingredients

Directions

Flour the fish.
Prepare a quick, clear fire and set the grill high.
Broil the fish until it is a fine brown.
Place the fish in a dish.
Melt butter in a pan.
Bruise the lobster spawn in the melted butter.
Cut the lobster meat into small pieces and add to the butter.
Heat the mixture and pour it over the fish.
Garnish with horseradish and lemon.

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.

Whiting + haddocktop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together103 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Whiting + lobstertop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together73 recipes

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

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together31 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Horseradish + lemontop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,155 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Flour + horseradishtop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together743 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).