Name: Salmon a LA Chambord
Ingredients: 1 fine salmon; parsley for garnish; crayfish for garnish

Why it works: Salmon and crayfish work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 89 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Salmon a LA Chambord

Ingredients

1 fine salmon
parsley for garnish
crayfish for garnish

Directions

Boil the salmon in the usual manner until cooked through.
Drain the salmon thoroughly.
Serve the salmon on a napkin, garnished with parsley and crayfish.

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.

Salmon + crayfishtop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together89 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Parsley + crayfishtop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together159 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
Salmon + parsleytop 24% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,516 recipes

Shared aroma: eugenol (clove, spicy).