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Salmon Baked Over Mashed Potatoes

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Salmon and potato work together. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 952 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Salmon Baked Over Mashed Potatoes

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

  1. Prepare mashed potatoes by peeling and boiling them until tender.

  2. Place a wire stand over the mashed potatoes.

  3. Lay the salmon on the wire stand above the potatoes.

  4. Bake in a moderate oven (350°F / 175°C) until the salmon is cooked through.

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. Salmon + potatotop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together952 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

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