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Broiled Smoked Salmon

Broiled smoked salmon is prepared by washing, simmering, broiling, buttering, and garnishing with lemon juice and parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Broiled Smoked Salmon

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the salmon

  1. Wash the smoked salmon in cold water.

  2. Place the salmon in a skillet and cover with cold water.

  3. Gradually heat and simmer for five minutes to remove excess salt.

  4. Remove the salmon and wipe it dry.

Broil and serve

  1. Broil over clear coals on a buttered grill.

  2. Butter the fish and add drops of lemon juice.

  3. Garnish with parsley.

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 + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Butter + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together28,563 recipes

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

  3. Salmon + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,481 recipes

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

  4. Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,227 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Smoked salmon
Provides the main flesh and smoky flavor of the dish.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the fish brown lightly on the grill.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the rich, smoky flavor of the fish.

The step that matters

Simmering to remove excess salt. Smoked salmon is often heavily cured, so gentle simmering in cold water draws out surplus salt. Heating gradually and not boiling keeps the flesh tender and prevents it from toughening or falling apart.

Swap the parsley

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

  1. Parsleythe original
  2. Capersfits about as well
  3. Dillfits about as well
  4. Thymefits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, butter, 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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