Skip to main content

Cod Stewed with Turnips

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Saffron and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 380 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Cod Stewed with Turnips

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Peel and cut the turnips into quarters.

  2. Slice the onion and fry it in oil in a stewpan.

  3. Add water, salt, pepper, and nutmeg to the stewpan.

  4. Add the turnips and stew until tender.

  5. Lay the cod slices on top and stew until cooked through.

  6. Remove the cod and place it on a serving dish.

  7. In a bowl, mix flour, vinegar or lemon juice, saffron, and parsley.

  8. Add this mixture to the turnips and stir well.

  9. Arrange the turnips around the cod and pour the sauce over both.

  10. Garnish with parsley sprigs.

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.

Explore the science

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. Saffron + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together380 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

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

  3. Turnip + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,842 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Nutmeg + parsleytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,062 recipes

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

  5. Nutmeg + saffrontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together125 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turnip, pepper, nutmeg, flour, vinegar, saffron, parsley):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Parsnipfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against turnip, pepper, nutmeg, flour, vinegar, saffron, parsley. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

You might also like

Turnip SoupTurnip Soup43 recipesTomato SoupTomato Soup526 recipesBrown BreadBrown Bread461 recipesMutton BrothMutton Broth292 recipes