Name: Welsh Dried Salmon
Ingredients: 1 fresh salmon (16 to 20 pounds); 1 ounce ground white pepper; 1 pound coarse sugar

Why it works: Salmon and white pepper work together. They rank in the top 33% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 242 recipes. The science ↓

Welsh Dried Salmon

Ingredients

1 fresh salmon (16 to 20 pounds)
1 ounce ground white pepper
1 pound coarse sugar

Directions

Split the salmon open at the belly, starting 8 inches from the tail and cutting to the bone up to the nose.
Remove the gills and all refuse, then wipe the inside well and dry it completely.
Mix the ground white pepper with the coarse sugar.
Rub the inside of the salmon with the mixture, focusing on the bone, for at least 15 minutes.
Bring the sides of the salmon together and place it on a dish.
Rub the remaining mixture all over the outside of the fish.

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.

Salmon + white peppertop 33% of all pairs

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Cooked together242 recipes
Salmon + sugartop 35% of all pairs

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Cooked together931 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
White pepper + sugartop 42% of all pairs

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Cooked together812 recipes