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Salmon Salad

A salad made with flaked canned salmon, diced cucumber, chopped celery, and salmon salad dressing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Salmon Salad

Why it works: Cucumber and celery are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,745 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Salmon Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Flake the salmon into a bowl.

  2. Dice the cucumber and finely chop the celery.

  3. Mix the salmon, cucumber, and celery together.

  4. Serve with salmon salad dressing.

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. Cucumber + celerytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,745 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Salmon + cucumbertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together513 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  3. Salmon + celerytop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together658 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Steak salmon
Forms the main body of the salad and provides its savoury, meaty flavour.
Cucumber
Adds moisture and a crisp, cool texture.
Celery
Adds crunch and a fresh, slightly sharp flavour.
Salmon salad dressing
Moistens the mixture and binds the flaked salmon with the vegetables.

Swap the celery

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

  1. Dillfits better
  2. Capersfits better
  3. Corianderfits better
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, cucumber. 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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