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Salmon Salad

A salad of canned salmon served on lettuce leaves with lemon slices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Salmon Salad

Why it works: Lettuce and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,559 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Salmon Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove salmon from the can and take out all the bones, skin, and fatty pieces.

  2. Separate the salmon into pieces of uniform size.

Assemble

  1. Arrange the salmon on lettuce leaves and top with slices of 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. Lettuce + lemontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,559 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  2. Salmon + lemontop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,918 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Salmon + lettucetop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together487 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

What each ingredient does

Salmon
Supplies the main protein and flaky texture of the salad.
Lettuce leaves
Form a crisp base that holds the salmon pieces.
Lemon
Adds acidity that brightens the flavor of the fish.

Swap the lettuce

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

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Cucumberfits better
  3. Chivefits better
  4. Lettucethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, lemon. 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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