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Salmon and Peas

A creamy salmon and peas dish served with a rich cream sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,787 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Salmon and Peas

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove skin and bones from the salmon.

  2. Heat the cream sauce in a saucepan.

  3. Drain the peas and add them to the heated sauce.

  4. Cook for a few minutes until warmed through.

Serve

  1. Pour the sauce over the salmon and serve.

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. Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Salmon + peastop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together375 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Salmon + creamtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,401 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Salmon + saucetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,765 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Sauce + peastop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,109 recipes

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

What each ingredient does

Salmon
Forms the main body of the dish, flaking into the sauce as it is served.
Rich cream sauce
Adds fat and richness, and carries moisture over the salmon.
Peas
Adds sweetness, bright color, and a tender bite to the dish.

The step that matters

Warming the cream sauce through. Cream sauces are emulsions that can separate or turn grainy if they boil or overheat. Warming gently over low heat keeps the sauce smooth and glossy while the peas heat through.

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, cream, sauce):

  1. Sesamefits better
  2. Pistachiofits about as well
  3. Cashew nutfits about as well
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, cream, sauce. 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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