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Saumon En Mayonnaise

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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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 ↓

Saumon En Mayonnaise

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare a large salmon and cook it in a mixture of water and white wine.

  2. Once cooked, let it cool in the cooking liquid.

  3. Drain the salmon and place it on a decorated serving platter.

  4. Cover the platter with a cloth and garnish with a border of parsley.

  5. Add crawfish and decorate with shrimp and cooked potatoes.

  6. Serve mayonnaise sauce on the side.

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. Parsley + potatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,855 recipes

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

  2. Shrimp + potatotop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together520 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Salmon + shrimptop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together819 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  4. White wine + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,890 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  5. Shrimp + saucetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,423 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, white wine, shrimp, potato, sauce):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Capersfits better
  3. Dillfits better
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, white wine, shrimp, potato, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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