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Salmon Chops

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 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 ↓

Salmon Chops

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Squeeze the juice of ½ lemon into a bowl.

  2. Add 1 teaspoon salt, a dash of red pepper, a little parsley, and 2 tablespoons dried bread crumbs.

  3. In a saucepan, make a thick cream sauce by heating 1 cup cream, 1 walnut-sized piece of butter, and 1 tablespoon flour until thickened.

  4. Combine the cream sauce with the salmon mixture and let it cool.

  5. Mould the mixture into chop shapes.

  6. Dip each chop into additional bread crumbs, then into 1 beaten egg, and back into the bread crumbs.

  7. Fry the chops in hot lard until golden brown.

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. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

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

  4. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Parsley + walnuttop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together865 recipes

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

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

Swap the walnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lemon, pepper, parsley, bread, cream, butter, flour):

  1. Chickpeafits better
  2. Pistachiofits about as well
  3. Chestnutfits about as well
  4. Walnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon, pepper, parsley, bread, cream, butter, flour. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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