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Salmon Cutlets

Salmon cutlets seasoned with salt, cayenne pepper, lemon juice, and salad oil, then broiled.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Salmon Cutlets

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove the skin and bone from the salmon slices.

  2. Trim the salmon into cutlet shapes.

  3. Sprinkle the cutlets with salt, cayenne pepper, lemon juice, and salad oil.

  4. Let the cutlets marinate for 30 minutes.

Cook and serve

  1. Grease the grill with beef suet or pork.

  2. Broil the salmon cutlets until cooked through, optionally wrapping them in buttered or oiled paper to prevent burning.

  3. Serve with a sauce of your choice.

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 + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + beeftop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,971 recipes

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

  3. Salmon + lemontop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,918 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Lemon + beeftop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,278 recipes

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

  5. Salmon + beeftop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together333 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Salmon
Forms the main body of the dish and provides the flesh that cooks through under the grill.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the flavour of the fish.
Salad oil
Adds fat that helps keep the cutlets moist while they broil.

The step that matters

Broil the salmon cutlets until cooked through, optionally wrapping them in buttered or oiled paper to prevent burning.. Salmon is thin and lean, so it dries out and chars quickly under direct heat. Watching for doneness and using a fat-coated paper wrap helps protect the surface and keep the flesh moist.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Lemonthe original
  2. Avocadofits about as well
  3. Limefits about as well
  4. Mangofits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, pepper, beef. 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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