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Poached Egg with Salmon

A bread case filled with salmon and cream sauce, topped with a poached egg and garnished with parsley and lemon.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and lemon 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 ↓

Poached Egg with Salmon

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the cases

  1. Cut rounds of bread 1 inch thick and remove the centers to create cases.

  2. Brush the outsides of the bread cases with melted butter and brown them in a 400°F (200°C) oven.

Fill and serve

  1. Heat the flaked canned salmon in a cup of cream sauce and fill the center of the bread cases.

  2. Top each filled case with a poached egg.

  3. Garnish with parsley and sliced lemon before serving.

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. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  4. Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Bread
Forms the edible case that holds the filling and crisps when browned.
Melted butter
Adds fat that helps the bread case brown and gives it a rich flavour.
Canned salmon
Provides the savoury, flaky filling that is heated in the sauce.
Cream sauce
Binds the salmon into a moist, creamy filling.
Eggs
Add a soft, runny yolk that enriches the filling when cut into.

The step that matters

Brown the bread cases. Browning the butter-brushed bread in a hot oven dries and toasts the surface, so the case stays crisp and does not turn soggy under the warm creamy filling.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, butter, salmon, cream, sauce, egg, parsley):

  1. Lemonthe original
  2. Avocadofits about as well
  3. Coconutfits less well
  4. Pumpkinfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, butter, salmon, cream, sauce, egg, parsley. 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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