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Boiled Salmon

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 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 ↓

Boiled Salmon

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare and boil the salmon according to general directions.

  2. Serve the salmon on a hot dish with a drainer and a folded napkin underneath.

  3. Garnish with parsley and cut lemon.

  4. Serve melted butter, parsley, mayonnaise or hollandaise sauce in a sauce-boat.

  5. Prepare sliced cucumber with white vinegar, salad oil, pepper, and coarse sea salt.

  6. Optionally, serve some of the boiling water in a sauce-boat.

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 + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  3. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Cucumber + vinegartop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,734 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyl acetate (fruit).

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

Swap the cucumber

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, parsley, lemon, butter, sauce, vinegar, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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