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Salmon Sandwiches

A sandwich made with canned salmon, egg yolks, lemon juice, parsley, paprika, and salad dressing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 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 ↓

Salmon Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the salmon

  1. Drain the oil from the salmon and remove all skin and bones.

  2. Mash the fish finely.

Make the filling

  1. Press the egg yolks through a potato ricer.

  2. Combine the mashed salmon, egg yolks, salt, lemon juice, chopped parsley, paprika, and salad dressing.

  3. Spread the mixture between slices of white or whole wheat bread.

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.

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

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

  2. Salmon + eggtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,485 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Lemon + eggtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together44,316 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  5. Parsley + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,765 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

Lemon and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 44,316 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Salmon
Provides the main body and flavor of the filling.
Hard boiled egg yolks
Add richness and a creamy, smooth texture when pressed finely.
Boiled salad dressing
Adds moisture and tang, binding the filling together.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the fish and balances the richness.

The step that matters

Pressing the egg yolks through a potato ricer. Pressing yolks produces a fine, even crumb that blends smoothly into the salmon. Lumps of unmixed yolk would make the filling uneven in texture and harder to spread.

Swap the parsley

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against salmon, lemon, egg. 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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