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Dressing for Canned Salmon

A dressing made with boiled eggs, butter, seasoning, and Durkee's Salad Dressing, served over canned salmon.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 16,012 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Dressing for Canned Salmon

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Boil the eggs hard and let them cool.

  2. Mash the yolks of 4 eggs smoothly.

Make the dressing

  1. Mix the mashed yolks with butter, pepper, salt, and celery seed.

  2. Heat the salmon in the can and the dressing separately.

Assemble and serve

  1. Pour the heated dressing over the salmon before serving.

  2. Slice the remaining hard-boiled eggs and place them on top.

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.

Explore the science

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 + celerytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Salmon + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,481 recipes

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

  3. Salmon + eggtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,485 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Salmon
Provides the main body and flavour of the salad.
Hard-boiled eggs
Add firm, sliced texture and mild richness to the salad.
Egg yolks
Mash into a smooth, creamy base that binds the dressing.
Butter
Adds richness and a smooth, silky mouthfeel to the yolk mixture.
Durkee's salad dressing
Contributes tangy, sweet seasoning to the dressing.

The step that matters

Mash the yolks smoothly. Egg yolks mashed thoroughly with butter form an even, creamy base. If lumps of yolk remain, the dressing stays grainy and does not coat the salmon evenly.

Swap the celery

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

  1. Parsleyfits better
  2. Dillfits better
  3. Capersfits better
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, egg, butter, pepper. 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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