Name: Salmon Pie
Ingredients: salmon cutlets; butter; coarse sea salt; black pepper; bruised shrimp (optional); lobster (optional); water; salmon bones; additional ingredients for fish gravy

Why it works: Shrimp and lobster work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 403 recipes. Both carry 2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, green. The science ↓

Salmon Pie

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.

Preheat your oven to 350°F (175°C).
Rub the bottom of a pie dish with butter.
Lay the salmon cutlets in the dish and season with salt and pepper.
Add bruised shrimp or lobster pieces between the cutlets if available.
Fill the pie dish halfway with water.
Use the salmon bones and any other ingredients to make a fish gravy.
Bake the pie until thoroughly cooked.
Open the lid and pour the gravy into the pie 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.

Shrimp + lobstertop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together403 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).
Salmon + fishtop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,078 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
Butter + shrimptop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,931 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).
Butter + fishtop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,488 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
Shrimp + fishtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together252 recipes

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