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Toasted Kippered Salmon

A salmon fillet that is boiled, toasted, buttered, and garnished with lemon and parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and parsley 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 ↓

Toasted Kippered Salmon

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the salmon

  1. Toast the salmon in front of a clear fire.

  2. Place the salmon skin side down in a basin and pour boiling water over it, repeating once or twice.

Finish and serve

  1. Transfer the salmon to a hot dish and spread butter over it.

  2. Place the dish in front of the fire for 1-2 minutes.

  3. Garnish with lemon slices and fried parsley, and serve very hot.

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. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

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

  2. Butter + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together28,563 recipes

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

  3. Salmon + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,481 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  4. Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,227 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Salmon + lemontop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,918 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Salmon
The main fish, whose flesh is warmed and flavoured by the smoky fire.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, coating the warm fish with a silky moisture.

The step that matters

Pouring the boiling water over the salmon. Hot water briefly firms and seasons the surface of the fish. Overexposure to heat can toughen the flesh and make it dry, so the pouring should be done only as many times as the method states.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, butter, lemon):

  1. Parsleythe original
  2. Capersfits about as well
  3. Dillfits about as well
  4. Thymefits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, butter, 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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