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Jellied Salmon

A chilled salmon dish set with gelatin, served on lettuce leaves.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Lettuce and olive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,580 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Jellied Salmon

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mixture

  1. Dissolve the powdered gelatine in cold water.

  2. Mix the minced salmon, gelatine mixture, lemon juice, salt, and salad dressing together.

  3. Pour the mixture into a mold.

Set and serve

  1. Chill until set.

  2. Serve on lettuce leaves and garnish with olives.

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. Lettuce + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,580 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  2. Lemon + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,922 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Lemon + lettucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,559 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  4. Salmon + olivetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,942 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Powdered gelatine
Sets the liquid mixture into a firm, sliceable jelly as it cools.
Minced salmon
Provides the main body and flavour of the dish.
Salad dressing
Adds moisture, fat and tang to the salmon mixture.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the flavour of the salmon.

The step that matters

Dissolve the gelatine fully in cold water. Gelatine must be hydrated and then dissolved completely before mixing; undissolved granules leave gritty spots and weak setting, so the mixture may not firm evenly when chilled.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Limefits about as well
  3. Cherryfits about as well
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, lettuce, olive. 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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