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A salmon dish broiled after marinating with lemon juice, cayenne pepper, salt, and salad oil.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and pepper 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 ↓

Broil Salmon

2 slices of salmon

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Sprinkle the salmon slices with lemon juice, cayenne pepper, salt, and salad oil.

  2. Let the salmon marinate for 30 minutes.

  3. Grease the grill with beef suet or pork.

  4. Wrap the salmon in buttered or oiled paper before broiling to prevent burning.

Broil and serve

  1. Broil the salmon until cooked through.

  2. Serve with maitre d'hotel, pickle, caper, anchovy, or horseradish sauce.

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. Lemon + peppertop 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; cooks through under heat to a flaky texture.
Salad oil
Adds fat that carries seasoning and helps keep the surface from drying out.
Lemon juice
Acidity brightens the flavour and slightly firms the surface of the fish.

The step that matters

Wrapping the salmon before broiling. Paper coated in butter or oil shields the surface from direct heat, so the fish is less likely to scorch before its centre cooks through.

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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