Name: Salmon-au Entree
Ingredients: canned salmon; parsley; lemon slices

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 ↓

Salmon-au Entree

Ingredients

canned salmon
parsley
lemon slices

Directions

Remove salmon from the can and break it up carefully.
Take away all the oil and as many bones as possible.
Arrange the salmon on a platter with parsley and thin slices of lemon.

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.

Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together14,037 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Salmon + lemontop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,918 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Salmon + parsleytop 24% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,516 recipes

Shared aroma: eugenol (clove, spicy).