Name: The Scollops of Salmon
Ingredients: potato paste; salmon; smelts; cooking fat

Why it works: Potato and salmon work together. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 952 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

The Scollops of Salmon

Ingredients

potato paste
salmon
smelts
cooking fat

Directions

Preheat the oven.
Make a border of potato paste on a suitable dish.
Place the scollops of salmon in the oven to cook.
Fry the smelts in hot fat, about six at a time.
Transfer the fried smelts to a wire sieve to drain.
Keep the smelts warm until ready to serve.

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.

Potato + salmontop 19% of all pairs

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Cooked together952 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
Salmon + smelttop 20% of all pairs

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Cooked together67 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Potato + smelttop 34% of all pairs

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Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).