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Cold Salmon

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Capers and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,550 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Cold Salmon

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cook the salmon whole or in large pieces in salted water and cool it in the same water.

  2. Remove the skin from one side of the cooled salmon.

  3. Coat the exposed fillets with mousse de saumon, adding more in the middle than on the sides.

  4. Cover the mousse with mayonnaise sauce thickened with fish jelly and let it set.

  5. On the serving dish, place some clear fish jelly to set, then place the salmon on top.

  6. Surround the salmon with a border of Montpellier butter using a piping bag.

  7. Decorate the center with truffles and encircle it with royale crowns made from anchovy fillets.

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. Capers + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,550 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Anchovy + saucetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Cucumber + caperstop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together303 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Cucumber + tomatotop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,405 recipes

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

  5. Cucumber + parsleytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,564 recipes

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

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

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, cucumber, anchovy, capers, tomato, sauce, fish):

  1. Tarragonfits about as well
  2. Garlicfits about as well
  3. Parsleythe original
  4. Dillfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, cucumber, anchovy, capers, tomato, sauce, fish. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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