Name: Smoked Salmon
Ingredients: salmon; olive oil; lemon juice; toast

Why it works: Olive and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,922 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Smoked Salmon

Ingredients

salmon
olive oil
lemon juice
toast

Directions

Cut the salmon into thin slices.
Heat olive oil in a frying pan until boiling.
Fry the salmon slices until firm when pressed with a knife.
Remove the salmon from the pan and squeeze lemon juice over it.
Serve with toast.

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.

Olive + lemontop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11,922 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Salmon + olivetop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,942 recipes

Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
Salmon + lemontop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,918 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).