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Baked salmon with onions, carrots, potatoes, parsley, bay leaf, and cayenne pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Chapel, Inie Gage, Mrs. [from old catalog] · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 28 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,053 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Telegram Conservation Cook Book

7 people

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut salmon into pieces, wash and wipe, and rub it with flour.

  2. Put a tablespoon of butter in a frying pan, add 1 sliced onion, 1 sliced carrot, a sprig of parsley and a bay leaf.

  3. Cook until slightly browned, then put them with the salmon into the casserole.

Bake

  1. Add one pint of water, cover and bake for three-quarters of an hour.

  2. Add four or five potatoes.

  3. Season with salt and pepper and cook until done.

  4. Add a few grains of cayenne pepper.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

828Calories
29 gProtein
11 gFat
153 gCarbs

Counts 12 of 14 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bacon1 slice cooked (8g)43
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Cayenne1 tsp (1.8g)6
Bay Leaf1 leaf (0.6g)2
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Woodnot in our table0
Waternot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Chapel, Inie Gage, Mrs. [from old catalog]. 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. See the original page.

Explore the science

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. Carrot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,053 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Onion + potatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Carrot + potatotop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,107 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  4. Potato + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,855 recipes

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

  5. Clove + carrottop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,873 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

What each ingredient does

Salmon (in the method)
Forms the body of the dish, flaking into tender pieces as it cooks.
Flour
Coats the salmon, helping thicken the cooking liquid into a light sauce.
Potatoes
Absorb the cooking liquid and release starch that thickens the casserole.
Onion
Softens and browns, adding savoury sweetness to the sauce.
Carrot
Softens and adds a gentle sweetness that balances the savoury fish.

The step that matters

Cook the onion and carrot until slightly browned. Browning triggers Maillard reactions between sugars and amino acids, building deeper savoury flavour. Pale, only-softened vegetables give a flatter, blander sauce in the finished casserole.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, bread, onion, carrot, potato, egg, parsley):

  1. Marjoramfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Capersfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, bread, onion, carrot, potato, egg, parsley. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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