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Cold Salmi

Cold Salmi is a chilled liver dish served with gravy, olive oil, lemon juice, cayenne pepper, and sea salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Cold Salmi

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. On a plate, combine the gravy and cut up the liver.

  2. Bruise the liver with the back of a spoon or a silver fork.

Season and serve

  1. Add olive oil, lemon juice, cayenne pepper, and coarse sea salt.

  2. Mix well and serve with the cut-up bird.

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. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  2. Olive + lemontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,922 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Olive + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,263 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Liver + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,375 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Liver + olivetop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together186 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanol (green, fruity).

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

What each ingredient does

Liver
Forms the main body of the dish and gives it its rich, savory flavor.
Gravy
Adds moisture and savory flavor, helping the liver mash into a spreadable texture.
Olive oil
Adds fat, giving the mashed liver a smoother, richer mouthfeel.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the rich flavor of the liver.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (liver, olive, pepper):

  1. Lemonthe original
  2. Limefits about as well
  3. Cherryfits less well
  4. Plumfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against liver, olive, pepper. 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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