Name: Boiled Salmon
Ingredients: salmon; Hollandaise sauce; little ball potatoes

Why it works: Salmon and potato 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 ↓

Boiled Salmon

Ingredients

salmon
Hollandaise sauce
little ball potatoes

Directions

Prepare and cook the salmon as you would for boiled fish.
Serve the salmon on a hot platter.
Top the salmon with Hollandaise sauce.
Arrange the little ball potatoes on top of the fish to resemble a bunch of grapes.

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 + potatotop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together952 recipes

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

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,765 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Sauce + potatotop 25% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,073 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).