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Baked Stuffed Haddock

A haddock stuffed with parsley, thyme, marjoram, suet, and breadcrumbs, then baked.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Thyme and marjoram match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,225 recipes. Both carry terpineol, which smells pine, woody. The science ↓

Baked Stuffed 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.

Prepare

  1. Wash and clean the haddock in cold water, then dry it with a cloth.

  2. Grate the bread crumbs onto a piece of paper.

  3. Wash the parsley in cold water and dry it with a cloth.

  4. Chop the parsley finely to yield about 2 teaspoons.

  5. Chop the thyme and marjoram finely, discarding the stalks.

Make the stuffing

  1. Mix the herbs with 2 ounces of the bread crumbs.

  2. Add pepper and salt to taste, then mix in the suet.

  3. Stuff the belly of the fish with the stuffing and sew it up.

Bake and serve

  1. Beat the egg in a plate and brush it over the fish, then roll it in the remaining bread crumbs.

  2. Grease a baking dish with dripping.

  3. Place the fish in the dish and bake in a preheated oven at 350°F (175°C) for 30 to 45 minutes, basting frequently with dripping.

  4. Carefully remove any cotton used to sew the fish before serving.

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. Thyme + marjoramtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,225 recipes

    Shared aroma: terpineol (pine, woody).

  2. Parsley + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  3. Parsley + marjoramtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,979 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

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

  5. Marjoram + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,609 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

What each ingredient does

Haddock
Forms the main body of the dish and carries the stuffing while it cooks.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and bind the stuffing, then form a crisp, golden coating outside.
Suet
Adds fat to the stuffing, keeping it moist and rich as it bakes.
Egg
Binds the crumb coating so it adheres to the fish and browns in the oven.
Dripping
Greases the dish and, when basted over the fish, adds fat for browning and moisture.

The step that matters

Basting frequently with dripping. Fish is lean and dries out quickly in dry oven heat. Regular basting with fat keeps the surface moist and helps the crumb coating brown evenly.

“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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