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Salmon Amd Salad

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Cauliflower and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,113 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Salmon Amd Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Trim the salmon neatly and remove the eyes, placing a pinch of salt in their place.

  2. Sprinkle a handful or two of brown sugar inside the salmon, followed by the same amount of coarse sea salt.

  3. Lay the salmon on a flat board, skin side up, cover with a cloth, and let it cure in a cool, dry place for 24 to 36 hours.

  4. For the salad, boil the cauliflower until two-thirds done, then let it cool and break it into pieces.

  5. Season the cauliflower with salt and pepper, and serve it alongside the salmon.

  6. To cook the salmon, cut it into slices, wrap each slice in paper, and boil in water with vinegar and bay leaves until done.

  7. Drain the salmon and let it cool on a cloth before packing it in a container with pickle, ensuring it is fully submerged.

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. Cauliflower + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,113 recipes

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

  2. Cauliflower + vinegartop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together888 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + vinegartop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,814 recipes

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

  4. Sugar + vinegartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,806 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Salmon + vinegartop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,675 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

Swap the cauliflower

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Cucumberfits better
  3. Mustardfits better
  4. Cauliflowerthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, sugar, pepper, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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