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Moyonaies Op Salmon

A salmon dish marinated overnight in vinegar, seasoned with pepper, salt, cloves, and topped with lobster dressing, served with salad.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and clove match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 17,451 recipes. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

Moyonaies Op Salmon

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare and marinate

  1. Boil the salmon until cooked through, then transfer to a dish.

  2. Remove all bones and skin from the salmon.

  3. Place the salmon in a deep dish and season with pepper, salt, and cloves.

  4. Cover the salmon with vinegar and let it marinate overnight.

Serve

  1. When ready to serve, place the salmon on a serving dish.

  2. Top the salmon with lobster dressing and serve with a salad.

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

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

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

  3. Salmon + lobstertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together313 recipes

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

  4. Clove + vinegartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,386 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Vinegar + lobstertop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together692 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

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

What each ingredient does

Salmon
Main protein that provides the flaky, tender texture of the dish.
Vinegar
Adds acidity that sharpens the flavor of the marinated salmon.
Cloves
Adds a warm, aromatic spice note to the salmon.

Swap the clove

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

  1. Tarragonfits better
  2. Capersfits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, pepper, vinegar, lobster. 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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