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A salmon stew made with rich white gravy, soy sauce, anchovy essence, salt, parsley, and chives.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Sauce and anchovy are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,057 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

To Stew Salmon

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the salmon

  1. Clean and scrape the salmon.

  2. Cut the salmon into slices.

Stew and season

  1. Stew the salmon in the rich white gravy.

  2. Add soy sauce.

  3. Add essence of anchovy.

  4. Add salt.

  5. Add chopped parsley.

  6. Add chives.

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. Sauce + anchovytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Parsley + chivetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,150 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Salmon + anchovytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together535 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Salmon + chivetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together343 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Anchovy + parsleytop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,702 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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 stew and supplies its flesh and flavour.
Rich white gravy
Provides the liquid base in which the salmon is stewed, carrying flavour and moisture.
Soy sauce
Adds savoury depth and salt-like seasoning to the stew.
Essence of anchovy
Contributes a concentrated savoury, umami note to the stew.

Swap the parsley

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

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Garlicfits better
  3. Tarragonfits about as well
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, sauce, anchovy, chive. 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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