Why it works: Cream and haddock work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 181 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓
Breakfast
Ingredients
Directions
Stew the eels until tender.
Prepare halibut steak with cream sauce.
Fry the fresh haddock until golden brown.
Broil the salt mackerel until cooked through.
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.
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Cream + haddocktop 6% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together181 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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