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To Boil Salmon Crimp

A boiled salmon fillet served with parsley, lemon, cucumber, and optional melted butter or sauces.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and lemon 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 ↓

To Boil Salmon Crimp

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut off the head and tail of the salmon, leaving about 2 inches of neck.

  2. Slice the salmon into circular fillets about 3 to 4 inches thick.

  3. Clean the fillets thoroughly to remove any blood.

  4. Soak the salmon in cold, brackish water with salt.

Cook and serve

  1. Place the head and tail in a fish kettle with boiling water, a little salt, and vinegar.

  2. Boil until cooked through.

  3. Serve on a hot fish plate under a napkin.

  4. Garnish with parsley and lemon slices, and serve with melted butter or sauces as desired.

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. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

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

  2. Parsley + cucumbertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,564 recipes

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

  3. Vinegar + cucumbertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,734 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyl acetate (fruit).

  4. Lemon + cucumbertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,067 recipes

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

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Salmon
Forms the main body of the dish and provides the flaky texture when cooked through.
Vinegar
Added to the boiling water, it contributes a mild acidity to the cooking liquid.

Swap the cucumber

The recipe marks cucumber as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, vinegar, parsley, lemon):

  1. Shallotfits about as well
  2. Cucumberthe original
  3. Chivefits about as well
  4. Broccolifits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, vinegar, parsley, lemon. 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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