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Canned Salmon, Danish Mode

A Danish-style salmon dish with potatoes and a garlic-floured sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and garlic are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,517 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Canned Salmon, Danish Mode

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the potatoes

  1. Peel the potatoes and place them in a pan with a little dripping.

  2. Bake the potatoes until done.

Make the sauce

  1. Thicken the drippings with flour, season with salt, pepper, and minced garlic.

Assemble and serve

  1. Arrange the warmed salmon in the center of the dish with the potatoes around it.

  2. Pour the sauce over the fish and serve.

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.

Explore the science

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. Potato + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,517 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Pepper + garlictop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,090 recipes

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

  4. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Clove + garlictop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,368 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

What each ingredient does

Potatoes
Form the bulk of the dish, becoming tender and starchy when baked.
Salmon
Provides the main protein and flavor, flaked and warmed before serving.
Flour
Thickens the drippings into a smooth, cohesive sauce.
Dripping
Adds fat for cooking the potatoes and carries flavor into the sauce.
Garlic
Adds aromatic pungency to the sauce.

The step that matters

Thicken the drippings with flour. Flour must be cooked into the hot fat before liquid is added, or it stays floury and clumps. Cooking it briefly also removes raw starch taste and lets the sauce thicken evenly.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, salmon, flour, pepper, garlic):

  1. Parsleyfits better
  2. Dillfits better
  3. Turmericfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, salmon, flour, pepper, garlic. 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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