Name: Boiled Haddock
Ingredients: Haddock; slices of hard boiled eggs; parsley; Egg Sauce

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 ↓

Boiled Haddock

Ingredients

Haddock
slices of hard boiled eggs
parsley
Egg Sauce

Directions

Clean the haddock and boil it as directed in Ways of Cooking Fish.
Remove the fish to a hot platter.
Garnish with slices of hard boiled eggs and parsley.
Serve with Egg Sauce.

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.

Haddock + saucetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together200 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Egg + parsleytop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together18,765 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Parsley + saucetop 23% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together6,693 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Haddock + parsleytop 23% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together456 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Haddock + eggtop 28% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together492 recipes