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Salmon Steaks with Sweet Sauce

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Cinnamon and clove match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,189 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

Salmon Steaks with Sweet Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the salmon into steaks.

  2. Flour the salmon steaks.

  3. Fry the steaks in clarified butter until cooked through.

  4. In a saucepan, combine red wine, sugar, cinnamon, coarse sea salt, pepper, cloves, and lemon juice to make the sweet sauce.

  5. Simmer the sauce over low heat.

  6. Serve the salmon steaks topped with the sweet sauce and 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.

  1. Cinnamon + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,189 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

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

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Red wine + clovetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together849 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  4. Flour + cinnamontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,341 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Cinnamon + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,890 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, flour, butter, red wine, sugar, cinnamon, pepper):

  1. Nutmegfits about as well
  2. Clovethe original
  3. Cardamomfits about as well
  4. Allspicefits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, flour, butter, red wine, sugar, cinnamon, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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