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Salmon Ring

Cold seafood dish of lobster and salmon set in gelatin with eggs, capers, olives, and seasonings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Capers and olive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,688 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Salmon Ring

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fish

  1. Boil the lobster meat and salmon in salted water until tender.

  2. Fill a round tin fish border very solidly with the cooked seafood.

  3. Chop the hard boiled eggs, capers, and olives, and add them to the fish border.

Make the aspic and set

  1. Dissolve the gelatin in cold water, then mix in the soup stock, bouillon, Worcestershire sauce, and lemon juice.

  2. Strain the mixture through a cloth and pour it over the fish.

  3. Put the dish on ice and let it chill.

  4. This can be made a day before serving.

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 + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,688 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Lobster + saucetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,095 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Gelatin + saucetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together104 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Capers + saucetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together678 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Salmon + caperstop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together458 recipes

    Shared aroma: eugenol (clove, spicy).

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

What each ingredient does

Lobster meat
Provides the main seafood flavor and firm, tender texture in the ring.
Salmon
Adds rich flavor and body to the seafood filling.
Gelatin
Sets the liquid stock into a firm, sliceable aspic that holds the ring together.
Hard boiled eggs
Add a soft, creamy texture and mild richness to the filling.
Soup stock
Forms the savory liquid base that becomes the set aspic.

The step that matters

Fill the fish border very solidly. Packing the cooked seafood tightly leaves fewer air gaps, so the set aspic holds the ring together and slices cleanly rather than crumbling or leaving hollows.

“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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