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To Make Rolled Salmon

A baked salmon roll with oysters, parsley, bread crumbs, fennel sauce, caper sauce, and lemon garnish.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 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 Make Rolled Salmon

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a quick oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).

  2. Strew pepper, coarse sea salt, chopped oysters, parsley, and bread crumbs over the inside of the salmon.

  3. Roll the salmon up tightly and place it in a deep pot.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake the salmon in the oven until cooked through.

  2. Serve with fennel sauce poured over it and a side of caper sauce.

  3. Garnish with lemon.

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 + fenneltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together625 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Fennel + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together723 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

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 cooks to a flaky, moist texture when baked.
Bread crumbs
Absorb juices from the fish and help hold the stuffing together in the rolled salmon.
Chopped oysters
Add a briny, savoury flavour that blends into the stuffing as it bakes.

The step that matters

Bake the salmon in the oven until cooked through. Salmon is done when its flesh turns opaque and flakes easily. Because the fish is rolled, the thickest centre may lag behind the edges, so check the middle, not just the outside, to avoid dry or undercooked fish.

Swap the fennel

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

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Marjoramfits better
  3. Dillfits about as well
  4. Fennelthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, pepper, oyster, parsley, bread, sauce, 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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