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Salmon Salad

A salad of canned salmon, boiled potatoes, dill pickles, olives, celery, onion, hard boiled eggs, dressed with vinegar, pepper, salt, and French's cream salad dressing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Salmon Salad

Why it works: Dill and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 382 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

Salmon Salad

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the salmon

  1. Drain the salmon and remove any oil.

  2. Flake the salmon and place it on a bed of lettuce.

Make the salad

  1. Chop the boiled potatoes, dill pickles, olives, celery, onion, and hard boiled eggs.

  2. Mix the chopped ingredients with vinegar, pepper, and salt.

  3. Pour the mixture over the flaked salmon.

  4. Garnish with slices of hard boiled eggs and lemon.

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. Dill + celerytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together382 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  2. Potato + dilltop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together423 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Potato + celerytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,047 recipes

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

  5. Potato + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,458 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (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 salad.
Boiled potatoes
Add starchy body and bulk that soaks up the dressing.
Hard boiled eggs
Add richness and a soft, creamy texture to the chopped mixture.
Dill pickles
Add acidity and a sharp, briny crunch.
Celery
Adds crisp, fresh crunch that contrasts with the soft ingredients.
Onion
Adds sharp aroma and pungent flavor.

Swap the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, potato, dill, olive, onion, egg, vinegar):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Garlicfits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, potato, dill, olive, onion, egg, vinegar. 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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