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From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Lettuce and endive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 284 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Salmon, Mayonnaise of

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove the skin and bones from the cold boiled salmon and cut it into serving pieces.

  2. Mask the salmon completely with thick mayonnaise sauce.

  3. If desired, mix in a little endive with the lettuce for added flavor and appearance.

  4. Decorate the surface of the mayonnaise with tarragon, chervil, or thinly sliced truffle for an elegant presentation.

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. Lettuce + endivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together284 recipes

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

  2. Lettuce + beetroottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together678 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  3. Beetroot + endivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together132 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Capers + endivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together32 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Beetroot + caperstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together231 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the endive

The recipe marks endive as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, lettuce, cucumber, beetroot, capers, egg, sauce):

  1. Endivethe original
  2. Chivefits about as well
  3. Horseradishfits about as well
  4. Shallotfits less well

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

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