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Salmon Salad

Salmon salad with bread crumbs, cucumber pickles, hard‑boiled eggs, vinegar dressing, thick cream, and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Salmon Salad

Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Salmon Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a bowl, combine the salmon, bread crumbs, cucumber pickles, and hard-boiled eggs.

  2. In a saucepan, mix the vinegar, beaten egg, thick cream, and butter, then boil the mixture and let it cool.

  3. Pour the dressing over the salmon mixture and mix thoroughly.

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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Explore the science

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Cucumber + vinegartop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,734 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyl acetate (fruit).

  4. Salmon + cucumbertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together513 recipes

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

  5. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the salad and add richness and structure once the beaten egg is cooked in the dressing.
Bread crumbs
Absorb liquid and give the salmon mixture body and a softer texture.
Thick cream
Adds fat and richness, giving the dressing a smooth, creamy texture.
Vinegar
Adds acidity that brightens the dressing and balances the richness of cream and egg.

The step that matters

Boiling and cooling the dressing. Beaten egg mixed with cream and vinegar can curdle or scramble if overheated. Heating gently until just boiling and then cooling lets the egg thicken the dressing smoothly before it is combined with the salmon.

Swap the cucumber

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (salmon, bread, egg, vinegar, cream, butter):

  1. Asparagusfits about as well
  2. Chivefits about as well
  3. Cucumberthe original
  4. Shallotfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, bread, egg, vinegar, cream, butter. 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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