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Salmon Jelly

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Allspice and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,395 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Salmon Jelly

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Break the salmon into flakes and season with allspice, coarse sea salt, and pepper.

  2. Fill a mold with alternate layers of aspic jelly and seasoned salmon.

  3. Turn out the mold onto a flat dish.

  4. Garnish with lettuce and sliced hard boiled eggs.

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. Allspice + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,395 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Pepper + lettucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,037 recipes

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

  3. Allspice + lettucetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together46 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  4. Salmon + eggtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,485 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Salmon + lettucetop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together487 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Swap the lettuce

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, allspice, pepper, egg):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Cucumberfits better
  3. Horseradishfits better
  4. Lettucethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, allspice, pepper, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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