Name: Baked Stuffed Huddocky Currants and Suet Pudding
Ingredients: Fish (haddock); Suet; Parsley; Coarse sea salt; Flour; Currants; Sugar; Potatoes

Why it works: Parsley and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,855 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Baked Stuffed Huddocky Currants and Suet Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the haddock by cleaning and gutting it.
Stuff the haddock with a mixture of suet, parsley, and currants.
Sprinkle the outside of the stuffed haddock with coarse sea salt and flour.
Bake the stuffed haddock until cooked through.
Serve with roasted potatoes and a drizzle of brown 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.

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.

Parsley + potatotop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,855 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Parsley + flourtop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together16,675 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together92,116 recipes

Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).
Haddock + potatotop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together171 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Fish + potatotop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together134 recipes

Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

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

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (fish, haddock, parsley, flour, sugar, potato):

Lemonfits better
Limefits better
Coconutfits better
Currantthe original

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