Name: Mayonnaise of Salmon No. Io6
Ingredients: boiled salmon; white Cos lettuce; boned sardines; anchovies; Mayonnaise Sauce (see recipe No. 52)

Why it works: Lettuce and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,019 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Mayonnaise of Salmon No. Io6

Ingredients

Directions

Flake the boiled salmon and place it in the center of a flat dish.
Create a wall around the salmon using the white Cos lettuce.
Garnish with boned sardines and anchovies.
Pour enough Mayonnaise Sauce over the entire dish to cover it.

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.

Lettuce + saucetop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,019 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Salmon + saucetop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,765 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Salmon + lettucetop 24% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together487 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).