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Salmon Slaw

A salad of flaked canned salmon mixed with cabbage, celery, white pepper, salt, and dressing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Cabbage and celery are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,840 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Salmon Slaw

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Drain the salmon and flake it into a bowl.

  2. In a large bowl, combine the chopped cabbage, celery, white pepper, and salt.

  3. Add the flaked salmon to the vegetable mixture.

  4. Use salad dressing to moisten the slaw to your desired consistency.

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. Cabbage + celerytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,840 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. White pepper + celerytop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together853 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  3. White pepper + cabbagetop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together97 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

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

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Salmon + cabbagetop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together94 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

Salmon
Provides the main protein and flaky texture of the slaw.
Cabbage
Forms the crisp, bulky base that gives the slaw its crunch.
Celery
Adds crisp texture and a mild, fresh vegetable flavor.
Salad dressing
Adds moisture and fat, binding the salad and carrying its flavor.

Swap the white pepper

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

  1. Dillfits better
  2. Parsleyfits better
  3. Capersfits better
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, cabbage, celery. 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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