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Croutes of Dried Haddock

Croutes of Dried Haddock is a dish of fried bread topped with a seasoned dried haddock mixture and garnished with egg and parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Haddock and sauce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 200 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Croutes of Dried Haddock

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fish

  1. Chop the fish finely and mix it with the tomato sauce, pepper, salt, and cayenne.

  2. Melt the butter in a saucepan, then add the fish mixture and heat until hot.

Assemble and serve

  1. Fry the bread slices until golden brown to make croutes.

  2. Pile the fish mixture high on the fried croutes.

  3. Garnish with chopped white and yolk of the hard-boiled egg and fried parsley.

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 + saucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together200 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  3. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Tomato + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

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

  5. Tomato + parsleytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,398 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Dried haddock
Forms the savoury main filling of the croutes.
Butter
Adds richness and carries flavour when the fish is heated through.
Tomato sauce
Adds moisture and a mild tangy sweetness to the fish mixture.
Bread
Provides a crisp, golden base that holds the fish filling.

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (haddock, butter, sauce, egg, bread, parsley, pepper):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Chivefits about as well
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against haddock, butter, sauce, egg, bread, parsley, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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