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Salmon Cones and Cream Peas

Salmon cones are fried salmon shaped into cones, served with cream peas and garnished with parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and parsley 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 Cones and Cream Peas

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Combine salmon, salt, cayenne, lemon juice, and white sauce in a bowl.

  2. Shape the mixture into cones.

Coat and fry

  1. Dip each cone in beaten egg.

  2. Coat each cone with cracker crumbs.

  3. Heat oil in a deep pan and fry the cones until golden brown.

  4. Drain the fried cones on brown paper.

Serve

  1. Serve the salmon cones arranged around cream peas garnished with parsley.

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 + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  4. Sauce + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Salmon + peastop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together375 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Cooked salmon
Forms the main body of the cone, providing flavour and bulk.
White sauce
Binds the salmon so the mixture holds its shape when shaped into cones.
Egg
Acts as a binder and glue so the cracker crumbs adhere to the cones.
Cracker crumbs
Form a crisp, browned outer coating when fried.

The step that matters

Frying the cones until golden brown. The oil must be hot enough to crisp the crumb coating quickly; if it is too cool, the cones absorb oil and turn greasy and may fall apart.

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, pepper, lemon, sauce, egg, cream, parsley):

  1. Chickpeafits better
  2. Pistachiofits about as well
  3. Sesamefits about as well
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, pepper, lemon, sauce, egg, cream, parsley. 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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