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Baked Haddock

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,023 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Baked Haddock

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. Prepare the haddock by cleaning and seasoning it.

  3. Bake the haddock in the oven until cooked through.

  4. Sauté onions and spinach in a pan until soft.

  5. Boil the potatoes until tender.

  6. Serve the baked haddock with onion sauce, mutton cutlets, and potatoes.

  7. Finish the meal with fig pudding.

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. Onion + potatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

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

  2. Spinach + potatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together646 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  3. Onion + spinachtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,336 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Potato + figtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together66 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Spinach + figtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together18 recipes

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

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

Swap the fig

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (haddock, onion, spinach, potato):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Figthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against haddock, onion, spinach, potato. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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