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Salmon a LA A.velane

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Salmon and truffle work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 177 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, fish (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

  1. Prepare and cook the salmon as described in the recipe for Salmon a la Destaing.

  2. Once cooled, cover the salmon with butter and several coats of jellied mayonnaise.

  3. Decorate with fanciful cuts of jelly dipped in partly cold jelly to form a medallion.

  4. Coat with a layer of jelly using a funnel with a handle and spring stopper.

  5. Place the salmon on a serving platter and garnish both sides with halved eggs decorated with truffles.

  6. Between the eggs, place small mounds of chopped jelly.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Salmon + truffletop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together177 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Butter + truffletop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,209 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Salmon + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,472 recipes

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

  4. Salmon + eggtop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,174 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Butter + eggtop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together118,511 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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