Name: Cream of Salmon
Ingredients: 1 cup cooked salmon; 2 quarts cream soup

Why it works: Salmon and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,401 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Cream of Salmon

Ingredients

1 cup cooked salmon
2 quarts cream soup

Directions

Rub the cooked salmon through a sieve using a potato masher.
Heat the salmon with the cream soup until warm.

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.

Salmon + creamtop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,401 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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What each ingredient does

Cooked salmon: Provides the main flavor and protein, and is pressed smooth so the soup has an even texture.
Cream soup: Supplies the creamy base that carries the salmon and gives the soup its body.

“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.