Name: Salmon Cromeskies
Ingredients: pieces of cooked salmon (such as the tail); chopped cooked mushrooms or truffles

Why it works: Salmon and mushroom work together. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 558 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Salmon Cromeskies

Ingredients

pieces of cooked salmon (such as the tail)
chopped cooked mushrooms or truffles

Directions

Drain the cooked salmon and remove the skin and bones.
Place the salmon under a weight until cold.
Cut the salmon into small, equal-sized pieces.
Mix the salmon with half its quantity of chopped cooked mushrooms or truffles.

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 + mushroomtop 22% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together558 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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Salmon Cromeskies