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Salmon and Egg Sandwiches

A sandwich made with canned salmon, hard-boiled eggs, cucumber pickle, and dressing, served on toasted bread or crackers.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Salmon and cucumber work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 513 recipes. Both carry 2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, green. The science ↓

Salmon and Egg Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Pick and drain the can of salmon.

Assemble

  1. Chop the salmon, hard-boiled eggs, and cucumber pickle together.

  2. Spread the mixture with dressing between the slices of toasted bread or on crisp crackers.

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.

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

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

  2. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Cucumber + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together344 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Salmon + breadtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together941 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Salmon
Provides the main protein and flaky texture of the filling.
Hard-boiled eggs
Add richness and a soft, creamy texture to the chopped filling.
Cucumber pickle
Adds acidity and a crisp, tangy bite that balances the rich eggs.
Dressing
Binds the chopped ingredients together and adds moisture and fat.

Swap the cucumber

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

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Chivefits about as well
  3. Cucumberthe original
  4. Leekfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, egg, bread. 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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