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A Palatable Salmon Rechauffe Al Napolitano

A dish of flaked salmon and cold spaghetti cooked in white sauce with egg and optional capers.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Sauce and capers work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 678 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

A Palatable Salmon Rechauffe Al Napolitano

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove bones and skin from the salmon and flake it with a fork.

  2. Cut the cold spaghetti into small pieces and mix it with the flaked salmon, seasoning to taste.

Make and serve

  1. In a saucepan, heat the white sauce and beat in the egg until well combined.

  2. Heat the mixture until it is smoking hot, then add the salmon and spaghetti.

  3. Toss gently with a fork to combine, being careful not to mash the ingredients.

  4. Add capers for extra flavor if desired, then serve immediately.

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. Sauce + caperstop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together678 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Capers + peppertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,088 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Salmon + caperstop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together458 recipes

    Shared aroma: eugenol (clove, spicy).

  4. Salmon + eggtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,485 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Salmon + saucetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,765 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Salmon
Provides the main flavor and protein, flaked into the pasta.
White sauce
Adds moisture and creaminess that coats the pasta and salmon.
Egg
Beaten into the hot sauce, it thickens and enriches the mixture as it sets.
Spaghetti
Forms the base of the dish, giving body and chew to the mixture.

The step that matters

Toss gently with a fork. Stirring hard or mashing breaks the flaked salmon and cooked pasta into a paste, losing the distinct texture of each ingredient.

“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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