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Salmon Mayonnaise

Pieces of salmon arranged on salad greens and lettuce, masked with mayonnaise sauce and garnished with beetroot or tomato and hard-boiled egg.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Lettuce and beetroot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 678 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Salmon Mayonnaise

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the salmon into pieces.

  2. Place the salmon in the center of a dish.

  3. Mask the salmon with mayonnaise sauce.

Assemble and serve

  1. Make a salad with the greens.

  2. Arrange the salad around the salmon.

  3. Garnish with slices of beetroot or tomato.

  4. Garnish with slices of hard-boiled egg.

  5. Serve additional mayonnaise sauce on the side.

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

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

  2. Salmon + eggtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,485 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Sauce + lettucetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,019 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Salmon + saucetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,765 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Sauce + beetroottop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together374 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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 its rich, flaky protein base.
Mayonnaise sauce
Adds fat and moisture, coating the salmon and keeping it creamy.
Hard-boiled eggs
Add firm texture and mild richness to the salad and garnish.

Swap the beetroot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, sauce, lettuce, egg):

  1. Cucumberfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Mustardfits better
  4. Beetrootthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, sauce, lettuce, egg. 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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