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Salmon Cutlets

Salmon cutlets are lightly seasoned salmon slices served with anchovy or caper sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Salmon and anchovy work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 535 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Salmon Cutlets

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Season the salmon slices with pepper and coarse sea salt.

  2. Butter a sheet of white paper.

  3. Place each slice on a separate piece of paper, twisting the ends.

Cook and serve

  1. Boil gently over a clear fire.

  2. Serve with anchovy sauce or caper sauce.

  3. For high seasoning, add chopped herbs and a little spice.

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. Salmon + anchovytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together535 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Butter + anchovytop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,697 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Salmon + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,481 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + anchovytop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Pepper + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Salmon
Forms the main body of the dish, cooking to a tender, flaky texture.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture, keeping the fish from drying as it cooks.
Anchovy sauce or caper sauce
Adds salty, sharp flavour that balances the richness of the fish.

The step that matters

Boil gently over a clear fire. Gentle heat cooks the salmon through while keeping it moist and tender. Vigorous boiling can toughen the protein and break the slices apart.

“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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