Name: Kippered Salmon
Ingredients: Kippered salmon; Oil or dissolved butter; Fresh butter; Lemon juice

Why it works: Salmon and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,481 recipes. Both carry 2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, green. The science ↓

Kippered Salmon

Ingredients

Kippered salmon
Oil or dissolved butter
Fresh butter
Lemon juice

Directions

Cut thin slices from the kippered salmon.
Soak the slices in cold water overnight.
Wipe the slices dry and rub them with oil or dissolved butter.
Lay the slices on a fish gridiron and broil over a bright fire for 8 to 10 minutes.
Rub the broiled salmon with fresh butter and squeeze lemon juice over it.
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.

Salmon + buttertop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,481 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).
Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together41,227 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Salmon + lemontop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,918 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).