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Salmon Salad

A salad of canned salmon, hard‑boiled eggs, cucumber, and dressing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Salmon Salad

Why it works: Salmon and cucumber work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 513 recipes. Both carry 2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, green. The science ↓

Salmon Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Turn out the can of salmon, remove the membrane and oil, and shred the nice parts.

  2. Place the salmon in a dish.

  3. Cut the cucumber into small pieces or dice it and add to the salmon.

  4. Dice the hard boiled eggs and add them to the mixture.

Dress and serve

  1. Pour enough salad dressing over the mixture to thoroughly wet it.

  2. Toss everything together with a fork.

  3. If desired, add chopped red bell pepper to taste.

  4. Keep in a cool place until served.

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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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. Salmon + cucumbertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together513 recipes

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

  2. Cucumber + peppertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,991 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Egg + cucumbertop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,346 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Salmon + peppertop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,446 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Salmon
Provides the main protein and flaky texture of the salad.
Hard boiled eggs
Add soft, creamy texture and body to the mixture.
Cucumber
Adds crisp texture and moisture to the salad.
Salad dressing
Moistens the mixture and adds flavor and richness.

Swap the cucumber

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

  1. Asparagusfits about as well
  2. Chivefits about as well
  3. Capsicumfits about as well
  4. Cucumberthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, egg, 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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